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VERSO
Signed, titled, and “#760”

In a letter to Millard Sheets, an art professor at Scripps College, Dixon wrote, “But long ago—about 1915, when ‘modern art’ first ‘bit the USA’—I had to make a hard decision. Should I go along with the ‘new movement,’ adopt a novel and fashionable point of view, get my ideas ‘imported’—or should I look at my world with more candid eyes, be plainly honest with myself and so achieve something perhaps not startling but at least sincere.

“As often before, I went again into the desert to find an answer—and it was not far to seek ... Well—there is the empty desert; there are the arid mountains; they shimmer in the ashen heat of noon, or swim in the far elusive color of evening—a reality that appears unreal, challenging the imagination.”

Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. No signs of restoration.

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