Painting the Town Orange
Painting the Town Orange
by Pete Gershon
English | EPUB | 8.2 MB
by Pete Gershon
English | EPUB | 8.2 MB
Houston’s sprawl has come with controversy, but it hascreated a blank canvas for the public art community. It all started in theTelephone Road Place subdivision, where retired mail carrier Jefferson DavisMcKissack built the Orange Show, an extraordinary and eccentric monument toself-reliance, hard work and, yes, the fruit itself. McKissack’s installationspawned more of its kind in the Bayou City, like the Beer Can House, the FlowerMan’s House, Pigdom—one woman’s “shrine to swine”—and a flourishing art scenecommitted to preserving Houston’s art environments. Author Pete Gershon tellsthe stories of these sites, their creators and the members of Houston’s uniqueart community, all set against the backdrop of the city’s quirky history.