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Article: BEST OF THE WEST: BEYOND THE WEST
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- Southwest Art
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- August 1, 2009
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Roadside Impressions
A new exhibition explores two historic highways
CARTERSVILLE * Texas artist Chuck Middlekauff gathers inspiration from the Old West. He once told Southwest Art, "I want people to see the old things anew, in a fresh and different way." In a new exhibition opening this month at the Booth Western Art Museum, Middlekauff explores Route 66 and Highway 41 in a series of paintings. For the exhibition, he drove through the Tennessee and Georgia sections of Highway 41, and cruised Route 66 from Amarillo, TX, to Los Angeles, CA, in search of vintage billboards and restaurant signs. "Though the old signs on both roads have much in ...