FINE ARTS 

*Israel Franca

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Main St. Danbury CT 1952 USA, 2003

Location: New York City

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Dimensions: Canvas only 19x27 inch

Credit line: The artist

Accession Number: MSD1927OC

Artists Makers: Israel Franca (artist), born. Brazil 1965

Image Use: This image is in public domain.

Custom Prints: Available 11x17 inch.

Overview

Painting Technique: .this painting was painted when I was temporarily living in the city of Dambury, CT in the United States. It was a very cold winter, a lot of snow accumulated with a temperature of minus fifteen degrees. The idea came when walking down the street I found a paper brochure on the floor that had the image of Main Street, I noticed that it was an old image and it was well damaged but I took it with me anyway, what caught my attention in this image was Rogers Park well l at the bottom of the image, because there I used to do some exercises in the morning when I could and I also lived to the right up on Seeley Street very close to rogers park. I lay down that night to sleep and thought about a way to paint this image, as I didn't even have the basic material. When I woke up in the morning I cut the sheet from the bed I slept on and started to do some scribbles with pencil, the only paint I had was a brown acrylic, on the bathroom cabinet there were some cotton swabs that I used to develop the shadows, a damp cloth and my fingers , when the beginning of the lines had already started with approximately 30% done from left to right I could not continue because the image was damaged, so I had the idea of ​​looking for the Dambury Bookstore to learn more about this image, I went to the bookstore in a Monday morning and I talked about the image, the bookstore attendant called the chief librarian, I showed him the piece of cloth with 30% of the painting done, he quickly identified the image and said that this image is used as a portal card of the city, he quickly printed the image on his computer and asked me: If you don't need this painting anymore, I ask you to donate it to the city hall that whoever the Mayor is, he was sure he would laugh like. I ran home right away and continued to paint, it was like 9 days of work, a little bit each day. Finally I finished it and I have this painting that I hold dear about my power to this day.

This is the true story of the painting Mains Street Dambury CT 1952 Acrylic on canvas, 24x17 inch made in 1999 by me Israel P. França (Israel Franca) (zen)

A city that I lived in a very difficult time and that I have many memories of many people I met there.product of a labor-intensive process .that Franca makes seem effortless

.Inscription: Signed “Israel Franca" on the front right side below and inscribed "MDS1927AC" in pencil on back

.Provenance: The artwork is original oil on canvas made in 2001 is in excellent condition. Artist Israel Franca

.Exhibition History: This artwork doesn't have any exhibition yet