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Sunset Magazine is a lifestyle
magazine focused on life in the NEW NEW NEW
Western United States.

Formed in 1898 as a promotional 8QOIRR-;AHJKV 8QOIRR-;AHJJM 8QOIRR-;AHJGC
magazine for the Southern
Pacific Railroad, the magazine
was intended to combat the
negative “Wild West” stereo-
types about California. The
magazine faced early problems
after the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake destroyed the
Sunset offices but recovered
fairly quickly thereafter.
By 1912 the magazine was
doing well enough to purchase
Portland-based magazine
Pacific Monthly and combined
the two to form Sunset: The
Pacific Monthly.

Sunset cover art in its early
years was of high quality since Succulent View (NPZSU2002) Cabin Collage (NPZSU2003) Desert Rider (NPZSU2005)
it was published during the Ray Bethers 1000 pieces $9.25 1000 pieces $9.25 Maynard Dixon 1000 pieces $9.25
golden age of magazine
illustration. Contributors of cover NEW NEW Artist feature: Maynard Dixon
art included Will James,
Maynard Dixon and Cornelia 8QOIRR-;AHJD. 8QOIRR-;AHJLZ Born in 1875 in Fresno, California, Maynard Dixon
Barns, amongst others. was an American artist whose work focused on
the American West.

In 1900 he began traveling through Arizona and
Mexico and accompanied artist Edward Borein
on a horseback trip through several Western
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states. His sketches of his trip started drawing
• PUZZLES much attention in the press, leading him to start
• MINI PUZZLES his own studio exhibitions in San Francisco.

To assure a steady income while submitting his
artwork to exhibitions and galleries, he worked as
NEW LICENSE an illustrator for local newspapers and eventually
started illustrating for Sunset magazine, including
some of the images we have chosen for
our collection.

The largest collection of Maynard Dixon artwork

Iris Gardening (NPZSU2007) Magazine of the West (NPZSU2001) can be found at the BYU Museum of Art.
Evelyn Simonds 500 pieces $8.25 Bannister 1000 pieces $9.25 For more information visit www.maynarddixon.org.