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From the first sketch to the final varnish, Bright Morning, Utah is made by hand. Based on Maynard Dixon's original. This traditional oil painting wall decor is crafted on artist-grade canvas for anyone who wants fine art oil painting with the character of an original.
October 1944
Oil on canvas laid on board.
In 1937, Dixon married his third wife and fellow artist, Edith Hamlin. By 1940, due to Dixon's failing health, they moved to Tucson, Arizona, and built a summer home and studio on twenty acres of land just east of Zion National Park in Mount Carmel, Utah. Mount Carmel was Dixon's sacred place of quietude, peace, inspiration, and retreat from the summer heat in Arizona. Here, Dixon would continue to create simple but powerful masterworks through his final years of life.
Bright Morning, Utah depicts a panoramic vista from Dixon's home in Mount Carmel which overlooks a peaceful valley with grazing cattle, golden cottonwoods, and the magnificent Diana's Throne in the distance. The stark blue shadows of the mesa act as a cool backdrop to the warmth of the valley floor. Golden cottonwoods, symbolic of the sun, afterlife, and solitude, were a personal emblem that would be a reoccurring theme in his compositions in the last fifteen years of his life. Bright Morning, Utah is entirely composed of Dixon's iconic trademarks -- broad modernist brushwork, a bold palette, and concentration on shape, line, and form. Dixon explained, "My work, outside the limits of illustration, is not the regulation "Wild West" type painting. I aim rather to interpret the vastness...loneliness, and sense of freedom this country inspires. To me, the wind of the wastelands has color, the opalescent ranges of the desert seem like music, and sometimes the giant clouds of storm, piled far above the mountains, take form as lost and forgotten gods..." Dixon's profound connection to nature and the western landscape during his fifty-year career has undoubtedly left an everlasting impression on the Western Art world.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for a living room.
Oil on canvas remains the reference standard for traditional reproductions. Our artists apply pigment by hand, blending the fine art tones directly on the surface for depth that a printed fine art oil painting simply cannot match.
traditional canvas wall art is one of the easiest ways to warm a living room. Pair this piece with natural linen, dark wood, or brushed brass, and let the hand painted surface do the rest.
Whether the search term is fine art oil painting, living room wall decor, or traditional oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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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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