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Breaking Into Vegas

Breaking Into Vegas

The Hoisters Take a Gamble

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James Gurney
Feb 12, 2025
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It’s the end of November, 1980. Tom and I decide to drive my old Austin America on a hoist* to Las Vegas. We’re going to, as he says, "paint the town red.”

Base of Circus-Circus Clown Sign, gouache on board, 1981. Original at the Starr Library through March, 2025.

I'm ready to make the break from black and white into color, so I bring my violin case fille…

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