Maynard Dixon

George Hurrell
Maynard Dixon
Gelatin silver print, 1929
9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches
Gift of Jennings T. Bird
1950.024.002

By the mid 1920s, Western painter Maynard Dixon began making powerful compositions with an emphasis on design and color, often with low horizons and dramatic cloud formations. From 1920 to 1935 he was married to documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her moving portraits of ordinary Americans impacted by the Great Depression. Lange’s work stands in direct opposition to the glitzy, idealized portraits of Hurrell.