James Dixon (1887 - 1970)

Oil on paper
55.8 x 76.2 cm
Signed, dated and Inscribed lower right ‘The First Electric Life Saving Rocket that was ever fired on Tory Island. By Capt P. Duggan...and Mr Patric Mc Claffirty No.1 Man. By James Dixon Tory Island 3.5.1967"

Provenance
The Derek Hill Collection

Exhibited
Austin / Desmond Fine Art, James Dixon, Mary Jewels, Alfred Wallis: Paintings by Three Self-Taught Artists, London, 19 March – 30 April 2003, illustrated p. 28
Mottisfont, New Connections: Modern British Art at Mottisfont, Romsey, April – June 2011