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Sat, 03 Feb, 2007
The Sheet Metal Cowboy
My next urban landscape picture is done. This is the building across the street from the "Exterminator Moderne" building I showed last fall. "Dixie Sheet Metal," as their sign proclaims, has been in business since 1945. That's more than sixty years. They create "hoods, exhaust systems, ducts," and other "metal fabrication to order." Sometime during their long history, the sheet metal guys built an eight-foot-tall figure of a cowboy, jauntily pointing to their shop. He's been a fixture there as long as I can remember. The facade of the office is also of interest, as it has a miniature, vernacular and abstracted version of a "Dixie" southern neo-classic architectural portico. This picture, if all goes well, will be in my June show at Falls Church Art and Frame.
"Dixie Sheet Metal" is watercolor and ink on paper, 10" x 16".
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