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exhibitions

Frame of Reference Fine Art Gallery, Whitefish, MT

29 Palms Art Gallery, Member Exhibition—juror's award

29 Palms Art Gallery, Differences in Common: A Contrapuntal Exploration of our American West—exhibition and artist's discussion

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs

City of Palm Desert, Portraits of the Desert

Saguaro Hotel, Palm Springs

Reference Location
Desert Center, CA

Desert Center Family Cafe

Photo etching and airbrush
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2014
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11" x 16"
Hand-colored photo etching of the run-down Family Cafe in Desert Center, California, a peeling FAMILY CAFE sign above a canopy and old gas pumps.Hand-colored photo etching of the run-down Family Cafe in Desert Center, California, a peeling FAMILY CAFE sign above a canopy and old gas pumps.
Part of
Motels & Roadside Signs
Diners, Cafés & Theaters
Palm Springs & the California Desert

The weathered FAMILY CAFE sign in Desert Center, California, red letters on a long board, sits atop a flat concrete canopy, with old gas pumps lined up beneath and a low building with dusty windows behind. The paved lot is empty, with green hills in the far distance. The same cafe appears in the painting Family Cafe at Desert Center.

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Painting of the Family Cafe in Desert Center, California: a pink roadside cafe and gas canopy with old red and white pumps in open desert.Painting of the Family Cafe in Desert Center, California: a pink roadside cafe and gas canopy with old red and white pumps in open desert.
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Route 66 Series—Road Runner Restaurant
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Motel and Roadside Sign Paintings
Medium
AllPaintingsPrintsMixed media
Subject
Grain Elevators & Mills
Motels & Roadside Signs
Diners, Cafés & Theaters
Barns & Farmsteads
Trains & Railroads
Churches & Schoolhouses
Place
Route 66
Palm Springs & the California Desert
Montana
Idaho
California
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