The Texaco Pump at Jackson Dairy

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The Texaco Pump at Jackson Dairy

Cartersville, Georgia

When I lived in Georgia, I became more involved with Art Festivals around the area in the mid-1980s. While driving down a road outside Cartersville, on Sugar Valley Road, I saw a gas pump that was on a farm, apparently used for the owner’s equipment. These paintings were all variations of the same pump.

This painting was the first in a series of gas pumps I painted during that time.  A few other pumps were Shell, Gulf, Mobile, Marathon and Sinclair.

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Billy Neal’s Texaco

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Billy Neal’s Texaco Station

Cartersville, Georgia

In 1986, during one of my Art Festivals, I had exhibited some of my past work in a photograph book, which included some commission work that I had done.  Billy Neal, a local resident, owned a gas station in Cartersville, GA.  His wife saw a painting of a Texaco gas pump hanging in my booth and purchased it for her husband as a gift.

Since she had seen some of my local paintings that I had done for other people in my book, asked if I would paint a picture of Billy’s Texaco station in Cartersville, GA.,  I was delighted to be able to add another local painting to my photograph book, which led to other commissioned paintings.

 

J H Butterfield’s

 

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J H Butterfields

Bar Harbor, Maine

While we had finished our southern and east coast art tour, we thought we would take a break and take a short vacation. Since we hadn’t seen the states in the New England area, we decided to take a trip to Maine.  Along the way, we took a lot of pictures, which I have painted a few of them. I struck gold in Bar Harbor, Maine when I saw J H Butterfield and the Christmas Spirit Shop on the main street of the small village.  The Christmas Spirit Shop painting was on the cover of Sunshine Artist magazine for the December issue in 1999.  The J H Butterfield store became one of my favorite paintings. You don’t see stores like this anymore.  I was fascinated by the history of the store, as it changed to making wreaths in the off season, shipping them all over the country and then catering to the locals and tourism during the peak season.

While at Prater’s Mill Festival in Dalton, Georgia, it was raining quite hard, so I left the painting in the trailer, but I had some prints at my display.  A lady from Chattanooga, TN stopped at the booth and fell in love with the print, but asked if I had the original painting.  A long story short, I made a trip to the trailer and she purchased the painting. 

The Christmas Spirit Shop painting in Bar Harbor.

 

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Prints:
 
PAPER PRINTS are  23.5″ X  19.5″ and are available for $65.00, shipped in tube.
 
ALL PRINTS are printed on canvas and stretched on wooden stretcher bars and prices vary according to size ordered. Most are 2:3 proportion
 
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wrapped print- part of the image is wrapped
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Non-wrapped print- The full image is on the face, with white or black edges
 
 
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30″ x 36″ Black Edge ………. $204.72

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30″ X 36″ original painting on stretched canvas not available.

 

   

Hot Air Balloon-Pepsi

 

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Hot air balloons were all from an Art Festival I exhibited at in Wytheville, Virginia. I won the Grand Champion award for my painting of J H Butterfield’s store located in Bar Harbor, Maine. Here are links to the other hot air balloons…

Striped Hot Air Balloon

Red White and Blue Hot Air Balloon

Pepsi Hot Air Balloon

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon

Zig Zag Hot Air Ballo

Pepsi Covered Bridge

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No Prints Available of this painting.

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Links to other covered bridge paintings I have done can be found here:

Mecca Covered Bridge

Neet Covered Bridge

Bridgeton Covered Bridge

Beeson Covered Bridge

Euharlee Covered Bridge

Euharlee Covered Bridge-Spring

Concord Covered Bridge

Poole’s Mill Covered Bridge

Pepsi Covered Bridge

 

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Lighthouse-White Shoal

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White Shoal Light

Lake Michigan

Located in Lake Michigan, the White Shoal Light, built in 1912, is 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge, which separates Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (known as the U. P.).

The light had a range up to 28 miles, with its 124 ft. height and 1.2 million candle power.  The red and white (Candy cane style) stripe is the only one of its kind in the U.S.  Cape Hatteras and St. Augustine both have black and white stripes.

While in Michigan, I painted many local landmarks for the public to recognize, with the White Shoal light being one of them.  I had painted other lighthouses, with 2 of them in Michigan, while the others were along the Florida coast. The painting was in the earlier part of my traveling career, around 1984.

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My lighthouse paintings was one of the most asked for set of framed prints during our years of traveling around the Country exhibiting my artwork. Here are links to all of them…

St Augustine Lighthouse

Jupiter Lighthouse

Cape Canaveral Lighthouse

Key Biscayne Lighthouse

White Shoals Lighthouse

Livingstone Memorial Light House

 

Lerner Theatre Sign

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The Lerner Theatre Sign

Elkhart, IN

The Lerner Theatre is the key focus of Elkhart, Indiana with their giant sign inviting everyone up and down Main Street to see what’s going on inside the Lerner Theatre, whether it is a performance, movie, or another type of gathering.

When you see the big Lerner sign, you cannot help, but to immediately read what is on the marquee below.  It is always exciting when you see that sign with anticipation of the performance you are about to witness.

This painting was selected to exhibit at the Juried Regional at the Midwest Museum of American Art, located in Elkhart, IN.

Other Theatres I have painted are: The Palace in South Bend, IN; The Reese in Plymouth, INFox in Detroit, Atlanta’s Fox, Fox #2 in Atlanta; The Chicago Theatre; The Los Angeles Theatre; Loew’s Theatre in Jersey City, NJ, Warner Theatre, Elkhart.

Other Theatres I have painted are: The Palace in South Bend, IN; The Reese in Plymouth, INFox in Detroit, Atlanta’s Fox, Fox #2 in Atlanta; The Chicago Theatre; The Los Angeles Theatre; Loew’s Theatre in Jersey City, NJ, Warner Theatre, Elkhart .