FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Maynard Dixon: Masterpieces from Brigham Young University & Private Collections
June 2 – August 12, 2007
Honorary Chairperson Diane Keaton and the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Museum of California Art invite you to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the museum and the opening of its new exhibition Maynard Dixon: Masterpieces from Brigham Young University & Private Collections.
Join us on May 31st for an evening of cocktails, music, buffet dinner, exhibition preview and premiere of Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit, a documentary by Jayne Mckay.
For tickets call 626-568-3665 x12
VIP $500, Dinner $250
Opening Reception for the public:
June 1, 2007, 7-8pm, Members Preview, RSVP 626-568-3665 x14
8-10pm General Opening, Wine and Music, $5 admission, Members Free
490 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA. 91101
626-568-3665, fax 626-568-3674
E-mail, info@pmcaonline.org
Web site, http://www.pmcaonline.org
Public hours, Wednesday – Sunday, 12-5pm
Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Mesas in Shadows, 1926, oil on canvas, 30 inches x 40 inches.
Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Herald Clark Memorial Collection. All rights reserved.
In celebration of its Fifth Anniversary, the PMCA proudly presents the largest exhibition ever mounted of Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), the beloved modern master of early twentieth century Western painting. Dixon, a native of San Francisco, depicted the open spaces of California and the western United States through a distinctive modernist style that was not unlike his contemporaries Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Weston. His starkly beautiful paintings defined the Western landscape in the imaginations of Americans during a time when expansion towards the West was reaching its peak. Also an accomplished figure painter, Dixon demonstrated a keen grasp of the humanity of his subjects, which included Depression-era urban dwellers and American Indians.
Maynard Dixon: Masterpieces from Brigham Young University & Private Collections is organized by the PMCA and curated by prominent Dixon scholar Donald J. Hagerty. The exhibition features over one hundred works, including a selection of paintings and drawings from BYU, which holds the single largest collection of Dixon’s art in the world, as well as masterpieces from private collections which have never before been exhibited.
Support for this exhibition has been generously provided by Sunset Magazine, Wells Fargo, Broidy Capital Management, Ken and Elaine Langone, Littler Mendelson LLC and Parsons Corporation.
Additional support has been provided by the Medicine Man Gallery, the Gerald Peters Gallery and Edenhurst Gallery.
