VERSO
Label, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Culver City, California

Western art writer Michael Clawson noted, “When Mark Maggiori was 15 years old, he flew from his home in France to New York for a month-long visit that would include a coast-to-coast drive through America’s vast natural and cultural landscape. From the steel and concrete of the big city, he traveled through the sprawling heartland and into the West, where towering rock formations beckoned his arrival. In On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote, ‘I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.’ Maggiori, transfixed by the desert’s beauty, had reached his own dividing line.”

“The American West had already imprinted on my brain at that point. As a boy I would play with a cowboy hat and pistol, watch Western movies and read about cowboys,” Maggiori said. “But when I finally came here, and saw Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, it started to connect for me in bigger ways. Those sights, those places – they all looked like big movie sets – they created very strong memories for me, and I suddenly understood the West and what it was.”

EXHIBITED
Alone in the Wild, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Culver City, California, 2015

LITERATURE
Western Art Collector, October 2015, p. 68, illustrated

Additional Resources

• Mark Maggiori’s Past Results
• View Condition Report

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.

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