Barbies Dream Tractor 2024 23x19

Year2024

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassGold Frame 

Purchased fromArtist 2024 

Story / Additional InfoThe style of this work is playful realism. The artist has created a work that celebrates the use of far machinery, specifically the tractor, in the farming process. She wants to have fun with the theme and show that farming is not exclusively a man’s vocation. Barbie exemplifies the idea that women can be farmers also. The brawny figure of the farmer lower right represents the traditional male. Even though Barbie is a controversial feminist or anti-feminist figure, she represents the modern woman here. The tractor floats above on a cloud, representing dreams that are necessary to make them come true. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

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Dixie Salazar - United States

Art Brokerage: Dixie Salazar Hispanic - American Artist: Dixie Salazar is a Central Valley, California artist who has been working in a number of mediums, including oils, watercolors, collage, assemblage, and hand-colored photography for the past forty years or more. Her work has been shown extensively in the Central Valley, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and Merced, at the Merced Multi-cultural Art Museum in 2005. This was a one person show of oils and painted collage, exploring her dual (Hispanic and Anglo) heritage. Other one person shows occurred in 2006 at Arte Americas in Fresno and Educational Employees Credit Union in Sacramento. A large body of figurative work was also shown at the Patterson Building in Fresno in 2006 in a show titled "Escaping Gravity". In 2013 Dixie had a one person show at Arte Americas in Fresno, INTERCONNECTIONS, painted collages that explored Mayan symbols and history relating them to contemporary issues. In the past five years, Dixie has entered a number of shows in California, Oregon and on the East Coast, winning a number of first place awards and several Best of Shows. Her latest show was a one person show at the Pacific Grove Monterrey Peninsula College Art Museum. Dixie Salazar is also a poet with three books of poetry published and a novel, LIMBO, published in 1995. Listings wanted.