Willard Dixon

One of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Dixon has painted the Northern California coastal landscape for 35 years. These paintings have been referred to as 'visual hymns' and do indeed have a quality of reverence. This same sensitivity can also be found in his spare, mellifluous still-lifes. Educated at Cornell University, the Art Students League in NY, the Brooklyn Museum School, he took his MFA in California in l969 at the San Francisco Art Institute. His works can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum and the Utah Museum of Fine Art.