New York, Vermont and Maine artist, Dixon studied at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and Charles Hawthorne. He was one of a group of painters known as the Dorset Five, which included Edwin Child, Wallace Fahnestock, John Lillie and Herbert Mayer. In 1922, this group held their first group show at the Town Hall in Dorset. By 1929, the group that had become known as the Southern Vermont Artists held their first Manchester show at the Equinox Pavilion, which was the beginning of the Southern Vermont Art Center. Dixon was also a member of Allied Artists and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. Dixon exhibited at the Corcoran, the Salons of America, and the Society of Independent Artists.