Given that Maynard Dixon commands as high a price at auction as $1.5 million, some of you might think a drawing by him would also be out of your pocketbook range. Not necessarily true, as demonstrated by the November 8, 2009, Altermann Galleries auction in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dixon’s ink on paper Mesa hammered in at $3,200. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. For centuries, drawings have been described as an artist’s tool transformed into a collector’s treasure. The Renaissance gave birth
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