Historic Solana Beach: 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: Historic Solana Beach

Historic Solana Beach. Oil painting on canvas, 6 x 3 ft.

This work was painted in 1991 as part of Tuck’s series of historic landscapes of San Diego’s “North County.”

The painting shows what’s now known as Solana Beach (formerly, Lockwood Mesa) at the turn of the 19th century, and is after an old black-and-white photograph, dated 1900, held by the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Seeking to better understand the historic view, Tuck states that “I actually found the exact location where the photographer stood” in 1900 when the original documentary photo was taken, noting wryly that the area where she was born and raised “sure has changed.”

The wooden structure shown in the painting and original photo is believed to have been some kind of facility for loading sugar beet.

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