The Texaco Pump at Jackson Dairy

Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston

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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Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston

Pure Oil Gas Pump

Copyright Larry Johnston
Copyright Larry Johnston

Pure Oil Gas Pumps

The Whistle Stop Café

Juliette, Georgia

The Movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” became a classic and was filmed during a time when I lived in Georgia. I’m showing you the painting I did of the Whistle Stop Cafe, in Juliette, Georgia, the location where the movie, “Fried Green Tomatoes” was filmed. You can see the painting at the Café’.

The painting is acrylic on stretched canvas.  The owner of the restaurant purchased the panting and then had me paint another one without the gas pumps. The Pure Oil pumps were movie props and went back to the movie lot, when the film was completed. If you visit the Whistle stop cafe, you get fried green tomatoes with every meal.  They’re pretty good too. I painted four paintings related to the movies, then put prints of them in a frame as a set of 4 matted and framed prints. The print sets were very popular, especially in the Atlanta area. One of my favorite shows was just east of Atlanta at Stone Mountain, called the “Yellow Daisy Festival”. It ranked in the top for shows in the country and several times #1.

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Gas Pumps are pretty popular! Here are the ones I have painted so far…

Exxon Gas Pump

Texaco Gas Pump

Texaco Gas Pump

Texaco Gas Pump

Texaco Gas Pump

Texaco Gas Pump

Shell Gas Pump

Gulf Gas Pump

Marathon Gas Pump

Mobile Gas Pump

Sinclair Gas Pump

Pure Gas Pump