The Painter's Cabin

A cabin restoration allows Maynard Dixon fans to enjoy views that inspired the master artist .

- Jana Bommersbach

Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting.

For the last seven years of his life, Maynard and his wife, muralist Edith Hamlin, summered and painted in the log-and stone cabin they built in Mount Carmel, Utah, immersed in the Western landscape he so loved. He asked to be buried on a high bluff above their cabin.

“Edith said burying him there was the best tribute she could give him, because people could come there and see all the things he loved to paint,” remembers Susan Bingham, who has lovingly restored the cabin with her husband, Paul.