Chino’s Bobber, 2023

Description

Oil on canvas painting imagining the motorcycle rode by Lee Marvin’s character Chino in the 1953 movie The Wild One.  The painting depicts the post war “bobber” style of Harley, probably a 49, 50 0r 51, and is set in a dry dusty yard in somewhere between Riverside and San Bernardino, California.  Set against a grape stake fence, it sits on dirt with the ubiquitous “puncture vine” in the foreground.