#561 Owl Club #561 Wood Print

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It took an Act of Congress to create the Owl Club in Historic Roseville, California. In 1920, this building was constructed as a grocery store for Louis Manfredi. In 1925, the Gee family opened a Chinese restaurant called the New China Café on the second floor, which operated until 1978. In 1933, Congress repealed Prohibition which created an opportunity for Frank Sellers, who converted the market to the Owl Club in 1934. The Owl Club stil operates today with a renovated 1940’s façade, distinctive neon sign, and a double owl statue on the edge of the roof.

By the 1930s, it was clear that Prohibition had become a public policy failure. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had done little to curb the sale, production and consumption of intoxicating liquors. And while organized crime flourished, tax revenues withered. With the United States stuck in the throes of the Great Depression, money trumped morals, and the federal government turned to alcohol to quench its th...

My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...