We spent just an hour at the Museum of the West, as there was no pressure to see it all, since we had memberships. We spent almost the entire time in the rotating exhibit on the ground floor, which was on the work of Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), whose work includes a massive number of drawings and paintings made in Arizona during the first half of the Twentieth Century. The landscapes and human portraits of both white people and Indians were breathtaking in their beauty. I could go back there every day while the exhibit is in Scottsdale.
Among the things displayed was a letter proving the Dixon was responsible for the idea that the Golden Gate Bridge should be painted the reddish-orange color that it is.
Almost none of the paintings in the exhibit are in the permanent collection of the museum. Many of them were from the Maynard Dixon Museum which is in Tucson. Definitely on my list of places to visit.
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