{"id":19248,"date":"2025-01-31T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19248"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:58:43","slug":"19248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19248","title":{"rendered":"our living landscape . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe landscapes that I choose to paint are tied by a common thread, a sense of nostalgia, a setting that at once is current, but also captures a sense of the (Sacramento) valley that hasn\u2019t changed for many years. I believe that landscapes live in us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Phil Gross<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While away from the studio, with limited collage ingredients, I made a miniature copy of a splendid oil painting by Phil Gross. I\u2019ll probably add a few finishing touches and then decide if it\u2019s appropriate to sign it. This turned out to be a very different kind of exercise than any other paper landscape that I\u2019ve done. My thanks to Rowland William Breidenbach for the opportunity to spend time with this landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_CAtheme_undone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_CAtheme_undone.jpg\" title=\"California Theme (after Phil Gross) ~interim stage of completion ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"440\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_CAtheme_undone.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_CAtheme_undone-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_CAtheme_undone-768x636.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 386px; margin-bottom: 1px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>California Theme (after Phil Gross)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nunfinished collage landscape by J A Dixon<br \/>\n10 x 8 inches<br \/>\nframed: 16.75 x 13.75 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe landscapes that I choose to paint are tied by a common thread, a sense of nostalgia, a setting that at once is current, but also captures a sense of the (Sacramento) valley that hasn\u2019t changed for many years. I believe that landscapes live in us.\u201d \u2014 Phil Gross &nbsp; While away from the studio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,22,18,249,148,675],"tags":[90,308,317,313,415,418,318,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20229,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/20229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}