Maynard Dixon : to the desert again
(Video)

Maynard Dixon To The Desert Again is funded in part by the Cleone Peterson Eccles Endowment Fund, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the Dr. Charles .Bieber Family Trust, Terence K. Stephens, Grant and Betty Hagestad, the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, the Lawrence T. Dee-Janet T. Dee Foundation, the C. Comstock Clayton Foundation, and the contributing members of KUED.

Producer / Writer / Editor: Nancy Green ; Associate Producer: Joe Prokop ; Director of Photography: Gary Turner ; Music: Frank Jarvis ; Director of Production: Ken Verdoia.

Narrator / Writer: Hal Cannon ; Voice of Maynard Dixon: John Lund

One hundred years ago, a solitary figure roamed the desert Southwest seeking to capture the endless sky and towering mesas in paint and poetry. His vision of the West was matchless. Maynard Dixon survived the destruction of San Francisco by earthquake and fire, the Great Derpression, and the civilizing of the West. He spent over two decades sketching it for popular books and magazines, and then decades more on a quest to find and portray it: the "real" West--the vast space, intense silence, and profound spirit of the land and its people. Discover the man and his art.