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Frame of Reference Fine Art Gallery, Whitefish, MT

University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert, CA, Salton Sea

Reference Location
Salton Sea, CA

Morning Moon

Acrylic on wood panel
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2016
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11" x 14"
Painting of a full white moon above a low blue mountain and a golden-orange desert plain near the Salton Sea, under a turquoise sky.Painting of a full white moon above a low blue mountain and a golden-orange desert plain near the Salton Sea, under a turquoise sky.
Part of
Palm Springs & the California Desert

A full white moon hangs over a single low blue-gray mountain near the Salton Sea in California, above a broad band of orange-gold desert ground with patches of green. The turquoise sky is scratched and streaked with red-orange marks, with a dark blue band across the top of the panel.

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