CALIFORNIA IN THE 40s & 50s
Building a Train, 1949 |
Yosemite and the family car, 1949 |
Whittier, Summer 1949 |
This series of paintings is a
remembrance of the world I grew up in. Life went on at a
different pace then but California was in a state of radical
transition---transforming into the world we know today. Many
of the communities and most of the state were rural and agricultural.
Roads were narrower and slower; freeways and shopping malls were novel,
few and far apart. And
while the automobile came out the winner; the human community and a
certain quality of life have been sacrificed. This is the
world I knew. |
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