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Addicks-Bear Creek Methodist Chapel Harris County, Texas 10x8 inch oil on linen wrapped board |
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The Bear Creek Chapel shown here is one of the oil paintings I will exhibit at The Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in Oklahoma in March-April. I painted this one using my standard limited paint pallette—cad red, cad yellow, cobalt blue and Permalba white. The greens and oranges are mixed from the other colors.
I did a little research on the chapel building. Established in 1879, Bear Creek German Methodist Church served settlers in southeast Texas. In 1884 the Bear Creek community was renamed Addicks—named after Henry Addicks, the town's first postmaster. When I moved to greater Houston in 1968 this small chapel was still in a country setting alongside Hwy. 6, a two lane farm-to-market road that cut through prairie and then a pine forest along the outskirts of Houston. Recent years of development have surrounded the church with wider highways, subdivisions and city trappings. Addicks-Bear Creek Chapel was saved from demolition by adding it to the historical register.
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