Oil, Signed Lower Right
24 x 30
Edition: N/A
Framed
Price: $4,500.00
William Dickerson first visited New Mexico on his honeymoon in 1931. He made regular trips from his home in Wichita, Kansas to paint the Southwest landscape for the next forty years. His many summer excursions produced an abundant body of work visually portraying Dickerson's love of New Mexico and the unlimited stimulation it presented to artists. He became a close friend of Taos Society of Artists associate B.J. O. Nordfeldt ,when Nordfeldt made extended trips to Wichita beginning in 1929. The influence of Nordfeldt is obvious in many of Dickerson's works both from the 1930's and later. The modernist ideals of Cezanne ,which Nordfeldt so diligently followed, is much in evidence in Dickerson's geometric portrayals of the New Mexico landscape. His conpositons of the the naturally cubistic forms of the New Mexico villages allowed him the perfect subject matter to pursue the modernist influences of his time. Dickerson's many depictions of these colorful scenes faithfully exhibits his emotional artistic response to subject "there for the taking."
William Dickerson's art training was , like many of the early Taos artists, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dickerson's decision to return to his native Kansas to accept a position with the Wichita Art Association led to a forty year teaching career in his home state. His dedication to his community became his life force while his personal art, as a result, had little exposure outside of Wichita. Membership in the well known Kansas-based Prairie Print Makers provided what was to be the only broad exposure for an artist devoted to his home in America's heartland.
Wiiliam Dickerson was, and remains, the most representative Kansas painter and printmaker in Kansas art history. The native realism of the 1930's, whether depicting Midwestern agrarian scenes or the adobes of Taos, was to be swept away with the advent of the New York School and abstract expressionism following the Second World War. Dickerson's conscious decision to maintain his representational style in the face of risking almost certain obscurity is obvious in his body of work. In doing so, William Dickerson sustained his lifelong commitment to his personal vision, depicting the region he loved, both Kansas and New Mexico, in the style of his time.
(biography from: Parson's)
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