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ARTIST BIRTH: 1942 APPROXIMATE DATE: 1979 Exhibition Label: "Scene in Oakland", Oakland Museum of California March 9 - August 25, 2002 7. Willard Dixon (b. 1942) East Bay, 1979 Oil on canvas Gift of Marguerite Laird In Willard Dixon's 1979 East Bay, we see a panoramic view across the foothills and flatlands of Oakland looking towards San Francisco, as seen from the Hiller Highlands residential neighborhood later ravaged by the great fire of October 1991. Dixon's romantic realist style of painting recalls the grand panoramic vistas of the nineteenth century landscape artists. Involving imagery derived from his photographic "notes," Dixon emphasizes appealing natural features of the landscape in the foreground while involving atmospheric and light effects to minimize the man-made structures of the city's commerce and industry seen in the distance.