Maynard Dixon was one of the best known of the early 20th Century’s painters of the American West and the Native American culture. B In the late 1930, he wrote a friend, “Big news is we are going to quit Calif. & build us a log house in Utah, far from any large town. Mormons are simple honest farming people. We like them. Beautiful country, but cold in winter. Don’t know if we can make a living there, but take a gamblers chance.” In 1937, he and his wife Edith Hamblin, an accomplished muralist, moved to Mt. Carmel where they built their new summer home and studio. Now owned by the Thunderbird Foundation, visitors can tour this wonderful homestead now used largely as an artist’s retreat. Please call the Thunderbird Foundation at 800-992-1066 to make an appointment.
