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Abandoned Ranch (Lonesome Ranch, Los Banos, California) - Maynard Dixon - Oil Painting Wall Decor suits both traditional and modern interiors. As a fine art oil painting, it works as a standalone focal point or as part of a bedroom gallery wall, and unlike a print it is genuinely hand painted in oils.
circa 1970s
Oil on canvas laid on board
Abandoned Ranch (Lonesome Ranch, Los Banos, California), 1935, is a premier example of Dixon's work during this journey through the San Joaquin Valley. In a letter that is included with this lot, Dixon explains, "Lonesome Ranch is a spot where the eastern foothills of the dry Coast Range come down to the San Joaquin Valley 10 miles or so south of Los Banos, California." Here, Dixon invites the viewer on his journey down a long meandering dirt road through a blazing hot, sun-drench valley that leads us to an abandoned ranch in the distance. By the 1930s, the automobile was the prevalent mode of transportation and the West was embedded with numerous dirt roads as people increasingly made their way through remote regions. This "road to nowhere" was a theme that would be repeated throughout Dixons work. Hagerty notes, "Silence, clarity of air, and limitless space became properties on his canvas equal to the properties of color and form." (D.J. Hagerty, The Art of Maynard Dixon, Layton, Utah, 2010, p. 138) Abandoned Ranch (Lonesome Ranch, Los Banos, California), 1935 embodies this sense of limitless space, desolation, isolation, and loneliness that was predominant during one of the most challenging times in American history and for Dixon himself, as this was the year he divorced Lange, and his health began to decline.
The fine art subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of refined oil painting wall decor.
Materials matter for refined wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this refined oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
Whether the search term is fine art oil painting, bedroom wall art, or refined oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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