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Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

California State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus

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St. Louis, MO

Lee's Grill

Color photo etching and airbrush
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2011
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11" x 16"
Color photo etching of Lee's Grill, a small St. Louis diner with a rooftop sign, rounded shrubs and cracked pavement at dusk.Color photo etching of Lee's Grill, a small St. Louis diner with a rooftop sign, rounded shrubs and cracked pavement at dusk.
Part of
Motels & Roadside Signs
Diners, Cafés & Theaters

Lee's Grill, a small flat-roofed diner in St. Louis, Missouri, carries rooftop letters and a fascia band listing HAMBURGERS, HAM-EGGS, CHILE, MALTS and ICE CREAM. Its turquoise front and glass door sit between two large dark shrubs above a cracked concrete foreground. The same diner appears in the painting Lee's Grill. Edition of 25.

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Motel and Roadside Sign Paintings
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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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