Oil Painting of ranch house at 24245 Raymond Road, Madera, Madera County, California. Size: 24 x 50 inches

I lived there for about five years from the fall of 1959. Dad rented the farm which became his headquarters for his equipment and as well, he planted grain in the surrounding fields. This oil painting is loose and done from memory. I gifted this painting to my sister in Sonora, California. One thing missing is a second sycamore tree, which is in the front of the house at the left of this image. If I had painted that in, the front of the house would be obscured.

Just from a memory, but it is a huge memory. One cannot imagine the affect of having moved there in Fall of 1959 and living there five years. The folks left there in 1972.

This farm and buildings were probably built between the years of 1890 and 1900, in east Fresno. Other farms in this county and Madera County have that history of similar layout of the main house and tank house. The tank house was adjacent to a well and windmill in all of these locations. This ranch location was on what later became the Northwest corner of Ashlan Avenue and Temperance Avenue. These buildings have since been leveled [around 2019] and a new house sits there now. In a title search at the Fresno County Hall of Records shows that the property was twenty acres of fruit trees, in what comprised 8 lots of the Arlington Heights Tract of Fresno County. In 1912, Bradley and Wallace sold the farm to C.R. League and Martha Moffett, both of Fresno. If there were owners earlier than Bradley and Wallace, I could not find.

21.5 x 41.5 inches – Oils and Oil based enamels on latex sized cotton twill canvas. Stretched on 2 x 2 inch stretcher bars and gallery wrapped [all sides painted]. Ready to hang.

SOLD – NOVEMBER 8 – 2021 – To a farm family member in Madera Ranchos area. Sale $ undisclosed.

Fall of 2020 – This is currently in the Madera County Consortium of the Arts “Celebrating Agriculture” show of 2020, Circle Gallery, on Gateway in Madera. It is entered in the catagory of “The Human Factor.” Sale price listed at the show is $789.00. Because of the current Covid-19 conditions, Winners and showings are being shown Thursday, September 10 at 6 pm, as a ZOOM webcast for all entrants connecting to the Madera Circle Gallery and MCCA zoom link.

58 x 91 inches – Oil and Acrylics on canvas – November 2018.

Update April 20 – 2021

NO LONGER AVAILABLE ………… As of April 2021, This painting was placed in a NEW HOME to a lady in Madera named Mary.

She was very proud of it and said that …. “It did open up will open up my family room.”

Update: May 8, 2019.

Painted for a previous a client, on my personal whim, who liked it but had several reservations, the crux of which turns out to be the size. “It is too large.” So, that is quite all right and while one cannot argue unknown points, I am reminded of the movie Amadeus and at the end of a symphony, the king told Mozart it was too long and to just … “cut out a few notes.” More later on this painting.

This oil based enamels on 48 x 38 stretched canvas was finished last month and entered into The Big Fresno Fair.  It is still on display there until next week.

Evan at Pismo – Oil on canvas – 28 x 28 inches

This was from June 2017 at Pismo Beach, California. He is 12 years old in this depiction. I will have to decide later if this is a portrait or a seascape.

The Attack – 48 x 48 inch – Oil based on canvas

This for the 2015 “Black and White” show at Chris Sorenson Studio and Gallery, at south Van Ness and Railroad, Fresno, CA.

It is a battle line of the 3rd confederate Infantry Regiment in Cleborne’s Division in late 1864. It will be there all of May and is for sale. That’s the rules.

Governor’s Mansion – November 1997
This a first, as it was never shown before.