THE ARTIST

A Philadelphia artist’s life

JAD-000012 · Family provenance

John J. A. Dixon: a working biography

The family research record places John J. A. Dixon’s birth about 1888 and his death in 1962. His surviving work includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes and works on paper. A recovered website concept expands his name as John Joseph Albert Dixon; that expansion should be checked against primary records.

JAD-000013 · Family provenance

Mildred Sartelle Dixon and the art of the frame

Family records attribute distinctive frames on Sunflowers, The Golden Pear and the unidentified double portrait to Mildred Sartelle Dixon. Frames should be catalogued as objects in their own right, with materials, construction and photographs of details. No frame-maker attribution should be added to other works without evidence.