Robert LaDuke Paintings of the 1930’s-40s

Meyer East Gallery

Santa Fe, NM

August 6, 2010 to August 20, 2010
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Robert LaDuke’s narrative paintings are a combination of memories, dreams and everyday life. Some of LaDuke’s most vivid memories are of traveling cross country in the family Cadillac with an Airstream trailing behind. Combined with these memories is a fascination with 1940's era transportation and, because of an inheritance of antique steel toys, it comes as no surprise that the same steel toys often appear as subject matter in many of LaDuke’s paintings. Based on American transportation in the 1930-40s, LaDuke’s acrylic paintings feature images that were popular during that era. According to LaDuke, his work “is pretty much transportation oriented; trains, ships, cars, trailers, everything that rolls or floats - and they always have that nostalgic 40s look to them.”

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