A standing, three-paneled painted, wood-framed folding screen in redwood and black lacquer, depicting the craggy triangles and shadows of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Somewhat shallow in perspective, the top of the piece shows the flat buttes of the opposite side of the canyon. A turquoise blue, horizontal band represents a thin image of the sky. The depiction of the landscape evokes the sensation of a bright, sunny day; scenery is abstract with modernist influences.

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Screen, Study in Cubist Realism, 1925

This is a screen.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Denver Art Museum as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1925. Its medium is oil paint on wood panel, california redwood and black lacquer.

Cubist principles spread to designers and artists in every corner of the United States in the 1920s. This screen, painted by Western artist Maynard Dixon, also served as a painting of the crags of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In the spring of 1915 Dixon and his family traveled to Arizona, where he observed and drew the Grand Canyon firsthand.

It is credited Denver Art Museum, Lent by Grant and Betty Hagestad, 43.2009.