TRUCKS AND TRUCK STOPS
Two Trucks, Blue Truck, acrylic on canvas, 27" x 25"
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Western Star Profile Yellow Truck, side view, acrylic on canvas, 20 1/2" x 20 1/4"
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
B&W Trash Truck, acrylic on canvas, 42" x 99", 1999 On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
White Truck DOS, acrylic on canvas, 26 1/4" x 34 3/4" , 2015
Breezewood East West Truck Stop #2, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 32 1/2", 2011
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Blue Mack Truck/Yellow Canvas (MDC), acrylic on canvas, 21" x 28", 2007
Private Collection, On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Truck Back Detail Abstract, acrylic on canvas, 21" x 28", 2014
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Yellow Digger Split acrylic on canvas, 25" x 38" 2001
White Truck, Tunnel, acrylic on canvas, 28 1/2" x 36", 2014
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Breezewood Traffic Lights, acrylic on canvas, 26" x 26 1/2", 2014
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Stripe Homage (Blue), acrylic on canvas, 22" x 25", 2014
Private Collection, On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
White Cement Mixer, acrylic on canvas, 24 1/2" x 24 1/2"
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Tri Split Victoria Secret Model, acrylic on canvas 24 1/4" x 29" , 2003
White Truck 176, acrylic on canvas, 22 1/2" x 21 1/2"
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
Mack in Black and White, Door Open, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"
On Exhibit, AU Katzen Center, DC
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Machines, Trucks and Cars were a compelling subject for Val Lewton's suburban and urban painting: the building of the suburbs, the decay and revitalization of the city, the constant flux in and out of the city... a story of movement and change. Lewton documented what he witnessed. He created beauty out of the mundane. With the help of his West Coast sense of light. shadow and color, he saw "still life" and landscape, where others might see worn out vehicles. At first, images were transformed from newspaper photos. Later Lewton, a talented photographer as well as painter, was prodigious in capturing these images himself, forming his own library of possible painting subject matter. He studied them, experimented, cropped, and changed them in an effort to create a thing of beauty.