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“Old Timer” and “Friend Dixon”

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

The friendship of two artists who painted different American Wests.   
"Yes, I knew Charlie Russell—though not too well. I have always regretted that I did not know him better,” Maynard Dixon told an aspiring biographer who had asked about Russell in 1937, more than a decade after the cowboy artist’s death. Dixon’s statement could easily be misunderstood if one did not know that the two artists were friends for nea


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