Larry Morace

Series

Pastels

Pastel works on arches paper, drawn quickly and mostly on location: street corners, traffic and the particular light that comes off San Francisco pavement.

Pastel view down a suburban road toward the sea, with a heavy grey cloud bank, cars, a yellow road sign and checkerboard collage patterns

Perfect Moment #2, ver. 7

Pastel on arches paper

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Pastel suburban road scene under a grey storm sky, with collaged paper fragments floating in the clouds and across the foreground

Perfect Moment #2, ver. 8

Pastel on arches paper

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Painting of a road curving toward a distant purple sea with a red van, dark green tree and grey rolling clouds

Perfect Moment Keeps Changing #2, version 2

Pastel on arches paper · 2018

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Painting of a coastal road with a red van, yellow diamond sign and warm golden verges beneath a soft grey cloud bank

Perfect Moment Keeps Changing #2, version 3

Pastel on arches paper · 2018

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Painting of a suburban road with cars and a yellow sign under towering blue and white cumulus clouds

Perfect Moment Keeps Changing #2, version 9

Pastel on arches paper · 2018

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Painting of a road with a dark van and a yellow sign, green hedges and blue billowing clouds above a pale horizon

Perfect Moment Keeps Changing #2, version 10

Pastel on arches paper · 2018

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Pastel road scene with a flat red van, collaged shapes in the blue sky and bright paper fragments scattered across the fields

Perfect Moment Keeps Changing #2, version 11

Pastel on arches paper · 2018

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Pastel of a downtown street with traffic, a crosswalk and figures between tall buildings

Urban Moment #3

Pastel on arches paper

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Pastel looking down a tree-lined street toward hills, with a domed building at right

Leaving the Presidio

Pastel on arches paper

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Pastel of late sun on a California Street corner with cars at a crosswalk

Western Sun on California Str.

Pastel on arches paper

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