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Maynard Dixon Country 2010 is Underway!

AUGUST 27-29 2010
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With Artwork By:

Clyde Aspevig
John Budicin
Jill Carver
G. Russell Case
Len Chmiel
Glenn Dean
Josh Elliott
Walt Gonske
Carol Guzman-Aspevig
Colleen K. Howe
Kraig Kiedrowski
Peggi Kroll-Roberts
T. Allen Lawson
[...]

Len Chmiel takes Best of Show – Maynard Dixon Country 2009

The Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the Maynard Dixon Country 2009 Award winners.

Popular Choice
The Popular Choice Award was awarded to Kate Starling, for her painting “Lambing Season.”  Kate’s painting was selected by the patrons at Maynard Dixon Country, through a secret ballot vote.  Starling, who resides in Rockville, Utah, has [...]

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Paintings arrive in Mt. Carmel Daily

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New This Week -August 13, 2009

Le Printemps
By Jeremy Lipking

Oil on Linen
12 x 9
$5,500

Jeremy Lipking’s paintings are reminiscent of the artists of the nineteenth century naturalist movement, and like those painters, Lipking prefers to work in a cool, limited palette to create his unique sense of mood. Lipking is a Signature Member of [...]

It’s official! The best art in America will be found in Mt. Carmel, Utah, August 28, 29, and 30th!

Maynard Dixon Country 2009
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New This Week –

Clearing Clouds over the Vermillion Cliffs
by Ray Roberts

Oil
20 x 40
$5,800

Ray Roberts devotes all of his time to painting; particularly desert, coastal, and other landscapes. He has attracted a growing audience of collectors with his style, believing that a point of view is the most [...]

Glenn Dean, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, & Jeremy Lipking

Maynard Dixon Country 2009 – New This Week!
Evening Shadows, By Glenn Dean
Oil
11 x 14
$2,100
Glenn Dean was recognized as an emerging talent at the age of just 23 by Southwest Art Magazine. With an interest in the methods employed by the artists of the Early California Impressionist School, Dean paints many subjects, but feels most [...]

Richard Schmid
Terlan Sud Tyrel
Oil

Every year in the last full week of August, The Thunderbird Foundation
for the Arts hosts Maynard Dixon Country, an art show, gathering and
sale of work by thirty-forty of America’s premier artists.
Artist Maynard Dixon treasured the area near Zion National Park, and
made some of his most powerful paintings there. Along with his [...]

Clyde Aspevig, Jim Morgan, Glenn Renell – New this week for Maynard Dixon Country

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Maynard Dixon Country 2009 News

New This Week –

The Next Horizon by Clyde Aspevig
Oil
28 x 30
$30,000
Clyde Aspevig’s personal and artistic horizons have unfolded expansively
since his childhood on a Montana farm near the Canadian border. That
period [...]

Maynard Dixon Country News – New This Week

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Maynard Dixon Country 2009 News

New This Week

The Village of San Jose by Walt Gonske
Oil
8 x 10
$1,800

Walt Gonske studied with illustrator Frank Reilly before moving into a career as a freelance illustrator, where he was published in Esquire, Life, The New Yorker, and Playboy. In his oils, Gonske [...]