Fountain in the Moonlight 2005 27x23

Year2005

Hand SignedLower Right Hand 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassBrown Wood Frame 

Purchased fromArtist 2005 

Story / Additional InfoThe artist has painted a number of night scenes, especially interested in the mysteriousness that darkness lends to the landscape. She was influenced in this painting by Bonnard and captured the mystery and reflective mood stirred up by night. The moonlight through the palm trees at the top of the painting captures the wistful, yet nostalgic emotions sometimes brought out in the night. The fleeting, ghostly glimpse of a figure in the fountain is especially mystical and part of the mystery of this painting, just as the night often tricks the eye of the viewer into seeing things that are part of memory or dreams. The artist's family moved often and the setting is a dreamy, remembered one from the artist's childhood. 

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Dixie Salazar - United States

Art Brokerage: Dixie Salazar Hispanic - American Artist: Dixie Salazar is a Central Valley, California artist who has been working in a number of mediums, including oils, watercolors, collage, assemblage, and hand-colored photography for the past forty years or more. Her work has been shown extensively in the Central Valley, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and Merced, at the Merced Multi-cultural Art Museum in 2005. This was a one person show of oils and painted collage, exploring her dual (Hispanic and Anglo) heritage. Other one person shows occurred in 2006 at Arte Americas in Fresno and Educational Employees Credit Union in Sacramento. A large body of figurative work was also shown at the Patterson Building in Fresno in 2006 in a show titled "Escaping Gravity". In 2013 Dixie had a one person show at Arte Americas in Fresno, INTERCONNECTIONS, painted collages that explored Mayan symbols and history relating them to contemporary issues. In the past five years, Dixie has entered a number of shows in California, Oregon and on the East Coast, winning a number of first place awards and several Best of Shows. Her latest show was a one person show at the Pacific Grove Monterrey Peninsula College Art Museum. Dixie Salazar is also a poet with three books of poetry published and a novel, LIMBO, published in 1995. Listings wanted.