HARRY DIX (1908-1968)
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Biography • Harry Dix (1908-1968)
Harry St. John Dix was born in Washington State in 1908. He came to New York to study at the Art Students League. As a 19 year old promising student at the League, Dix was asked to exhibit at the Society of Independent Artists annual in 1926.
In 1938 Dix traveled across the country ending up in San Francisco. Dix exhibited a San Francisco subject at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. In 1941 Dix received the second prize at the Carnegie Institute’s wartime exhibition Directions in American Painting for his oil on canvas San Francisco Gothic.
In the 1940s Harry Dix participated in many museum invitationals, including the Art Institute of Chicago from 1940-1949; the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1941 to 1946; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1943-1947; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1940.
In New York Dix was represented by Contemporary Arts Gallery in the 1940s (gave Rothko an exhibition in 1933, also showed John Sennhauser) and later the Bertha Schaefer Gallery.
Harry Dix’s paintings were regularly reproduced in The New York Times Book Review, The Saturday Review, and The Reporter.