Lot 1231
JAMES DIXON (1887-1970) - MODEL BOAT & WALKING STICK, IRISH FOLK ART INTEREST
a wooden and leather clad walking stick, inset with a glass roundel and with a metal collar. Also with a model boat and lighthouse, made with pieces of metal and in a glass case. The ship with a label inside From James Dixon, Tory Island, 25.1.57. Case for Boat 32cms across, Walking Stick 92cms long. (2)
James Dixon was a native of Tory Island (Co Donegal), and enjoyed a simple life of fishing and farming. He was introduced to painting late in life after meeting the Artist Derek Hill in 1959, self taught he preferred making him own paint brushes and materials, and mostly produced primitive landscape paintings. His naive style was appreciated and he exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin in 1967, and the Portal Gallery in London. After his death his work was exhibited at Tate St Ives and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1999-2000) alongside Alfred Wallis. The label with the Boat would seem to predate his meeting with Derek Hill.
