Old Stage Coach
Maynard Dixon (American, 1875–1946)
Pencil on paper, 1904
Paper: 4.5 x 5 in. | Frame: 15.75 x 12.5 in.
Stamped lower right with artist’s thunderbird device and dated “1904”
Verso: titled, dated, and signed “OLD STAGE COACH / 1904 / BY Maynard Dixon”
Authentication label signed by Edith Hamlin Dixon
This early sketch by Maynard Dixon offers a rare, close-up view of a horse-drawn stagecoach, rendered in the artist’s energetic and intuitive hand. The swift pencil lines suggest motion and immediacy, emphasizing gesture over detail. Rather than a polished illustration, Dixon invites the viewer into the spontaneity of the moment—an imaginative space where the coach is both drawn and remembered. Created in 1904, the drawing serves as a bridge between the vanishing frontier and Dixon’s growing artistic vision of the American West.
