#438 Garden #438
by William Lum
Title
#438 Garden #438
Artist
William Lum
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
My watercolor painting for Day 32 of the Isolation Art Challenge of 60 themes in 60 days. This was for the theme of Garden. Many of the locals are familiar with the Horton Iris Garden in Loomis, California. I have painted quite a few iris paintings from that location and it was an easy choice for Garden since I have a great number of reference photos from visits there. Mr. Horton loves to give short talks about her iris farm with 1,300 varieties of Irises. I heard her mention that the old house was from a Sears catalog. Sears back in the day was the equivalent of what Amazon is today. They had a huge catalog of everything you want to buy and can ship it to you, including an entire house.
Sears reported that more than 70,000 of these homes were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940. More than 370 different home designs in a wide range of architectural styles and sizes were offered over the program's 34-year history. Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 44 house styles ranging in price from US $360–$2,890. Shipped by railroad boxcar, and then usually trucked to a home site, the average Sears Modern Home kit had approximately 25 tons of materials, with over 30,000 parts. In Carlinville, Illinois, Standard Oil bought $1 million worth of catalog homes to house their works, creating a 12-block area of Sears homes, the largest such collection in the U.S.
This 15” X 22” watercolor was done on Arches, 140 lb, rough paper.
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July 3rd, 2020
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