Freight Depot

Freight Depot

This Patriotic Art theme I painted is to pay homage to 9/11. Freight Depot was the second contemporary southwest landscape painting I did with the patriotic art theme. Patriotic Longhorns was the first, of which President George W. Bush owns a copy. I created this original wall art in watercolor, with the Arizona Flag, which adorns this typical southwest freight depot that came to life in 1939. With its Prickly Pear Cactus in the foreground and train tracks that disappear into the distance. Columbia Pictures built this replica inside Old Tucson Movie Studios  for the 1860’s movie “Arizona.” Many of those structures still stand today. This 1940 American Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Jean Arthur, William Holden, and Warren William was the 4th remake of the 1913 film Arizona. 

Creating Southwest Patriotic Art

Of course, being a contemporary Sedona artist, this was a real departure from my southwest Sedona landscapes, which I paint mostly. It was SouthwestArt magazine that lit my fuse to paint landscape images of the southwest. I happened to pick up a copy of it while visiting and skiing in Jackson Hole, Wy. I looked through the pages; it contained everything from Sedona landscape art to R.C. Gorman and Nelson Boren in this excellent publication of SouthwestArt magazine. Right then and there, I decided that when I returned home, this is what I’d be painting, southwest landscapes. This was before I knew that I would be making Sedona my home. I had no idea that Sedona landscape paintings and all variations of Sedona Art would be my mainstay in creating my art. Up until then, landscapes of the northeast were what I made. Beach scenes, seagulls, and the like were my typical fare.

Vivid Mystical Sedona Landscape Paintings

My first love was painting with watercolors; however, my medium of choice now is heavy body and liquid acrylics. Discover my vivid, mystical landscape paintings here.