# Lafayette Maynard Dixon artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:01:50.278Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1875-01-24
- Death date: 1946-11-13
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## Portrait

![Lafayette Maynard Dixon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Maynard_Dixon.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maynard_Dixon.jpg

## About Lafayette Maynard Dixon

Lafayette Maynard Dixon (1875–1946), commonly known as Maynard Dixon, was an American painter and illustrator whose career centered on the American West. Public authority data identifies him as an American painter, while biographical sources describe a body of work devoted to Western and Southwestern places and communities. Collectors most often encounter landscapes and images involving Indigenous people, cowboys, and early settlers. His career crossed the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, so works attributed to him may appear in both historical American-art and Western-art contexts. The collected evidence does not establish a formal movement affiliation, and this profile therefore avoids assigning one. Dixon’s recognizable subject focus, combined with his output in painting and illustration, explains why records may be grouped differently across auction catalogues. Identity matching should use the full name Lafayette Maynard Dixon together with the widely used short form Maynard Dixon and established authority identifiers.

## Common works and media

Paintings and illustrations are the documented work types most relevant to this profile. Recurring subjects include the landscapes of the American West and Southwest, Indigenous people, cowboys, and early settlers. Auction descriptions may consequently place Dixon’s work under Western art, American landscape painting, portraiture, figural scenes, or illustration, depending on the individual object.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, begin by identifying whether the object is a painting or an illustration and whether its subject is a Western landscape, Indigenous portrait or figure, cowboy scene, or settler-related image. Those distinctions help narrow relevant Appraisily auction records and comparable lots. When records are available, compare like with like and review sale date and realized price alongside the catalogue description. This source pack did not capture a major auction-house biography or direct guidance on condition, provenance, dimensions, date, signature, or attribution quality, so no unsupported price trend or market ranking is stated here. Object-specific evidence requires separate examination and should not be inferred solely from a subject match or an artist name attached to an auction record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile distinguishes established identity and subject evidence from market conclusions that require stronger object-specific or auction-house documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797395
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Dixon
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Dixon
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Dixon
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012108
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50027338
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/62803
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lafayette-maynard-dixon/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maynard_Dixon.jpg