Maynard Dixon Country 2010

About Clyde Aspevig

As a gesture of support for the Thunderbird Foundation and the legacy of Maynard Dixon, Clyde Aspevig has generously agreed to participate in Maynard Dixon Country '10. Clyde was a founding member of the advisory board for the foundation when formed in 2001 and continues in that role. It was through his advice and recommendations that many of the invited artists became involved. Clyde Aspevig's personal and artistic horizons have unfolded expansively since his childhood on a Montana farm near the Canadian border. That period of geographical and cultural isolation was in retrospect a blessing for the artist he recalls. "Because I grew up in a vacuum in Montana, I wasn't taught the cliches." He sees such naivete as allowing him to be more open to everything around him, which is especially evident in his latest works. His peripatetic field easel now ranges across the wild mountains and prairies of Montana, Death Valley, Adirondacks, rocky North Atlantic coast, Scandinavian fjords and the well-tended hillside estates of Tuscany. Thanks Clyde!