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Maynard Dixon is a painter whose work I love for its impressionistic color and expansive view of the west. I first encountered his work when researching Dorothea Lange, famed photographer and Dixon's second wife, and was immediately captivated. Dixon's vision of the West is so powerful, I believe, because of his powers of distillation. So well does he capture the essence of the land, that his resulting West is mythic, expansive, almost Elysian. In the first two images below, he pushes the…

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