Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Dixon, Maynard (1875-1946), American, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Spending it
Date:
[19--?]
Materials:
painting on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
18.5 x 27.2 cm., on mount 23.5 x 33.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0276--A
Subject:
- Clothing & dress
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Manners &
customs
- Miners
- Women
- Paintings
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Bar scene with group of men (frontiersman/trappe r in buckskin costume, man in poncho, dandy/gambler wearing top hat and coat, and miners) at bar. Miner celebrating finding gold dances with woman (wearing green dress) in center, raising their glasses in toast, as dandy takes her other hand; bartender stands behind bar, playing cards scattered on floor.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Handwritten title (on verso) in artist's hand? Signature (LR): Maynard Dixon. Partial label of artist on verso. Possibly illustration for magazine.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2r29p2h d

Spending it