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James TorlaksonEmpty Booth - iconic watercolor - Red Devil Fireworks1995
1995
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Empty Booth - an iconic American original watercolor painting - 36 x 24 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Empty Booth depicts the inside of an empty fireworks booth with a Red Devil Fireworks sign and with light flooding into the booth from an open door. Red, white, navy blue and brown hues, There is detailed wood from the roughly put together booth drawn with the painstaking accuracy for which the artist is well known. Highly detailed photorealistic hyperrealistic, realism is celebrated in this classic Americana still life scene.
Torlakson’s photorealism subject matter and imagery have centered on “every day” America including trucks, railways, amusement parks, waterfronts, fireworks booths, deserted drive-in theaters and coastal landscapes. His oil paintings, watercolors, aquatint etchings and drawings have been exhibited nationally since 1971 within United States and Internationally, with works housed in the permanent collections of many American Museums, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum; New York Public Library’s print collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, Denver Art Museum and the De Cordova Museum.
Empty Booth- watercolor is 36 x 24 inches, and is professionally framed in a museum quality maple hardwood with an outer dimension of 44 x 32 1/2 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent. At Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA.
- Creator:James Torlakson (1951)
- Creation Year:1995
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.94 in (2.39 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Burlingame, CA
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