ACRYLICS

KEITH SANDERS
first started painting when he was 14 years old and just beginning high school in Palm Springs, California.
After attending Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, CA in 1952 he knew that art was his life. He was especially intrigued with watercolors and is considered a master watercolorist today. He also paints with oils and acrylics.

“For the past few years I have been absorbed in painting about the impressions of my childhood travels on the old Route 66, combined with memories of the games of my father, grandfather, and uncles such as domino, card, and pool games. The Mother Road Series reflect my impressions and memories of that road in the 1930s, 40s, and early 50s as a young boy. The paintings have become part of a fondly remembered story I tell myself with paint.”

Today, Keith Sanders paintings are in collections throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

NEW MEXICO, 1938

Acrylics on canvas • 36x36 inches

MOTHER ROAD 1938 OKLAHOMA

Acrylics on canvas • 36x36 inches

FINALIST-HUNTING ART PRIZE, 2007

NEAR FLAGSTAFF

Acrylics on canvas • 36x36 inches

WINDOWS OF MY MIND

Diptych - 48x48 inches and 48x24 inches

Mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas

This painting evolved from my Mother Road Series. All artists paint from the subconscious. I think that each window signifies an event in my life, or, perhaps, a person.

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“This painting means a lot to me. In 1938, my father, mother and I left a dust-bowl farm near Cordell, Oklahoma and headed for California on the new Route 66. John Steinbeck called Route 66 “the Mother Road” of the country.

I consider my MOTHER ROAD SERIES of paintings an homage to my father, mother, grandparents, and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins, who left the failing farms in Oklahoma and headed for a new life.”

FOUR CORNERS

48x48 inches - Mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas

FINALIST-HUNTING ART PRIZE, 2009

NEW MEXICO, 1939

44x48 inches- Mixed media on board

This painting was one of the first in my Mother Road series.