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Title: Spending it
Creator: Dixon, Maynard (1875-1946), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [19--?]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Bar scene with group of men (frontiersman/trapper in buckskin costume, man in poncho, dandy/gambler wearing top hat and coat, and miners) at bar. Miner celebrating finding gold dances with woman (wearing green dress) in center, raising their glasses in toast, as dandy takes her other hand; bartender stands behind bar, playing cards scattered on floor.
Handwritten title (on verso) in artist's hand? Signature (LR): Maynard Dixon. Partial label of artist on verso. Possibly illustration for magazine.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor 18.5 x 27.2 cm., on mount 23.5 x 33.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2r29p2hd
BANC PIC 1963.002:0276--A
Subject: Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Manners & customs
Miners
Women

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