Exhibitions
Dixon/Ziemienski: The Illustrators
Visit the all new Maynard Dixon Museum for an exhibition featuring two of the greatest commercial illustrators to ever live: Maynard Dixon and Dennis Ziemienski.…
Our history
Maynard Dixon Museum
Since 1992, Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, has provided discerning collectors with the finest examples of antique and contemporary Native American art and fine Western art. The gallery specializes in the lifework of western artist Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), the Taos and Santa Fe artists colonies, and paintings and sculptures by renowned contemporary southwestern artists. We also carry an eclectic selection of fine modern Western art.
Dr. Sublette has assembled one of the largest collections of Maynard Dixon's original oils, watercolors, drawings, handwritten poetry, and ephemera in the world.
Maynard Dixon Biography
Born on a ranch near Fresno, California in the San Joaquin Valley on January 24, 1875, Maynard Dixon, originally named Henry St. John Dixon which later changed to Lafayette Maynard Dixon on September 8, 1875, became a noted illustrator, landscape, and mural painter of the early 20th-century American West, especially the desert, Indians, early settlers, and cowboys.
Maynard Dixon’s mentor, Charles Lummis, encouraged Dixon early in his painting career to leave California, and “travel East to see the real West”. Maynard Dixon did just that, traveling the many roads that crisscrossed the West: Montana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. Lasting weeks, to even months, these trips provided Maynard Dixon with the inspiration to create. He was forever drawn to the vistas and peoples inhabiting these remote western lands.
When Maynard Dixon first visited Arizona, at the turn of the 20th century, it was wild, open territory, inhabited primarily by Hispanics and Native Americans. In 1902, he made his first visit to Lorenzo Hubbell’s Ganado trading post, and came away with wonderful sketches he would use as inspiration for many years to come. Viewing these works, one can imagine the awe Maynard Dixon felt in the raw beauty of the landscape and its inhabitants. He would return to Arizona many times, ultimately making Tucson his final home.
