Title:
Spending it
Creator/Contributor:
Dixon, Maynard (1875-1946), American, artist (artist)
Date:
[19--?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0276--A
Format:
painting on paper: watercolor
18.5 x 27.2 cm., on mount 23.5 x 33.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Bar scene with group of men (frontiersman/trapper 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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (on verso) in artist's hand? Signature (LR): Maynard Dixon. Partial label of artist on verso. Possibly illustration
for magazine.
Subjects:
Clothing & dress;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Manners & customs;
Miners;
Women
Genre/Format:
Paintings;
Watercolors