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10.00" x 6.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 12.00"
Guys Dolls and Pink Adobe Framed Print
by Art West
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Guys Dolls and Pink Adobe framed print by Art West. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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NARRATIVE
In the land of low-riders the shiny old Oldsmobile shimmied and shook past the even older pink adobe its windows boarded up waiting for its new owner to dress it up. Caught in a moment just this side of history, she stood watching the late afternoon activities on the old Plaza next to the even older church, the one the Spanish built to tame the natives who didn't want to be tamed.
BACKGROUND
One day I spied this old pink adobe house just up the road from my studio in Santa Cruz on the High Road to Taos. I knew it would eventually make it into paint. The shadows had to be just right. I parked my old truck at the nearby bodega and braved my way to the busy intersection. No sidewalks here, so I stood next to the traffic light as I adjusted my lens. Later at the studio I began the composition. I didn't know exactly where it was headed, but I knew I wanted green to contrast the pink and to bring some history into the history ... and this is how it ended up.
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About Art West
I DREAMED AMERICA - Visionary Landscapes of the West and Beyond Art James West email: artweststudio@outlook.com website: art-west.pixels.com I've loved America since I was a kid. The beauty, the grandeur. Yeah, the corny stuff -- from sea to shining sea, purple mountains majesty and all that. I used to travel a lot with my folks and have been to 48 contiguous states. I used to gaze out the window of our old '58 Chev and imagine putting it all to paint, I dreamed America! I remember sitting out in front of the Tetons in the mid 60s pushing some paint around on a piece of masonite. To be a painter you have to paint! And folks now consider me a master oil painter. I've been painting the West for over 40 years and a...
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