Blue Saguan Motel

Artist / Maker Doug Shelton (American, b. 1941)

Date1999

OriginUSA

MediumOil and alkyd on canvas

Dimensions22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineIowa Art in State Buildings Project for the Palmer Building. Gift of Gerald and Carol Hunter. In the Permanent Collection of the Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberU2001.29

Status

Not on view

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Label TextFrom "Subject to Change" exhibit) Doug Shelton (American, b. 1949) Blue Saguan Motel, 1999 Oil on canvas Gift of Gerald and Carol Hunter. In the permanent collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. UM2001.29 This motel is located off the beaten path. The interstate highway in the background separates the motel from the rest of a fast-paced society. From a bygone era when people and their cars wandered highways and stopped often for entertainment and refreshments, it seems as though the motel seldom flashes the NO Vacancy sign and may be mostly forgotten, just as the broken native pots in the foreground.

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