Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Maynard Dixon And His Great Tucson Adobe

 January 29, 2025

   Just yesterday, I saw an Ansel Adams photograph of one of my painting heroes I had never seen before.

Maynard Dixon in his Tucson home

By Ansel Adams


   Besides being a stunning photo and a window into the artist's last days, it is significant because back in 2016, when we were at the Tucson Festival of Books we got to throw an author's party in this exact house. Here is a photo of me in the kitchen with the guy who set it up and my "agent."

Jeb Rosebrook, me and John Langellier

in the Maynard Dixon house in Tucson

   The agent tag was a joke because the late, great Jeb got me a gig at the Westerns Channel while pitching another project and ever since then he called himself my "agent." And, John Langelliere knows the people who own the house and he called in a favor, and man, oh man, was that a hoot-and-a-half!

   And, speaking of Dixon, this is one of the best blogs on Dixon I have ever done. Don't believe me, check it out.


  As I advance in age, I get so irritated by click bait and come on headlines. That's why it's time for, Headlines I'd Like to See:

A GARAGE SALE PAINTING SOLD FOR $50—EXPERTS THINK IT COULD BE WORTH EVEN LESS

"Here I was in the midst of The Real Thing—my western world—and my mind was set to tell the truth of it on paper and canvas and that meant work. It meant constant observation and constant drawing."
—Maynard Dixon

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