Sandstone and Tide: an oil painting by Tuck Contreras

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Tuck Contreras

OIL PAINTINGS:

The River

Horizons
(a series of 10 paintings)

Oaks & Sky

Sunset on the Klickitats

Looking East from The Dalles

Clouds & Oaks

Fractures
(a series of 9 paintings)

Greene with Blue Line

The Greene See

Boy with Sunset and the Sand

* Sandstone and Tide

Historic Solana Beach

Storm Clouds off OB

project: Sandstone and Tide

Sandstone and Tide. Oil painting on canvas, 48 x 20 in.

Sandstone and Tide was painted in 1992, as part of Tuck’s series of historic landscapes of San Diego’s “North County.”

While looking through the collection of old black-and-white photos housed at the San Diego Natural History Museum, Tuck discovered a striking photograph, c.1909–1910, of a solitary woman sitting on the sandstone outcropping that was once part of Solana Beach’s Fletcher Cove.

The photo recalled happy days from Tuck’s own youth when she used to fish from this same sandstone rock, which has since been worn away by the sea, and no longer exists.

Sandstone and Tide is Tuck’s painted memorial to the place where she was born and raised, and to a past that is gone forever.

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