Editing Lovelock, Nevada (section)

===Painting and sculpture===
Lovelock's connection with the figurative arts has most often been the result of artists passing through the area and recording something that had caught their eye. One of the earliest such travellers was [[Thomas Moran]], who caught the train south along the recently completed Central Pacific line in 1876 and sketched a thunderstorm over the nearby Humboldt Plain.<ref>[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/AdtKjEWXJYRJw9K7HbrS0Drkjw3Q2xsL7z-9PJt8zbysVDPBVs88EaMruHt7yTR7tIJjH3IvlA4DpyTDZG29MtAYEP62DEHG Google image]</ref><ref>Thurman Wilkins,  ''Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains'', University of Oklahoma 1998, [https://books.google.com/books?id=y6cPCH_V2zMC p.111]</ref>

For later artists their local work was the result of travelling the country to create a series on a chosen theme. They have included a watercolor in Bethany Lee's 2016 landscapes with a focus on their vegetation,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155415130872476&set=a.10155304166152476&type=3&theatre "Mown Hay" on the artist’s website]</ref> a view in Jessica Joy Jirsa's road sign series from 2018,<ref>[https://www.jjjirsa.com/featured_item/sign-series-tractor-crossing-2 "Tractor Crossing" on the artist’s website]</ref> and a casino restaurant in Jody Litton's continuing series recording the vernacular architecture of California and adjoining states.<ref>[https://jodylitton.com/lovelock-nv/sturgeons "Sturgeons" (2007), on the artist’s website]</ref> The landscape photographer [[John Pfahl]] also stopped by the town in 1978 to create two works: a shot of the "Lovelock Seed Co." at its southern end<ref>[https://collections.artsmia.org/art/22256/lovelock-seed-company-lovelock-nevada-john-pfahl Minneapolis Institute of Arts]</ref> and "Lovelock gas station" at the north end.<ref>[https://www.moca.org/collection/work/lovelock-gas-station-lovelock-nevada Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art]</ref>

Other painters were commissioned to create works in the town. [[Ejnar Hansen (painter)|Ejnar Hansen]]  was invited by the [[Federal Art Project]] to paint a mural in the newly completed post-office building in 1940 and chose the discovery of the [[Comstock Lode]] as a local subject.<ref>[https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-NO07 Society of Architectural Historians]</ref> In 1944 the gaming artist Franz Trevors (1907–80) was commissioned to paint six large canvases on Western subjects by a member of the local gambling industry and these were later installed in the casino at Felix's Bank Club on Main Street. For the main part the paintings were based on subjects by [[Charles Marion Russell]] but with original details of the artist's own.<ref>[https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/item.aspx?i=26106745&mobile=0 Holabird Western American Collections]</ref>

Some artists have also chosen to live in Lovelock for a while. Among these was Buck Nimy (1906/11 – 1959), who made black and white drawings of cowboy subjects, some featuring local scenery after he settled in the town about 1940.<ref>[https://www.nevadafineart.com/sold/buck-nimy Nevada Fine Art]</ref> More recently there has been Maggie Remington, whose speciality is to dig her own pigments from the desert earth to create her abstract designs.<ref>"Lovelock artist uses dirt to paint the earth", ''Inside Northern Nevada'', [https://insidenorthernnevada.com/PrintArticle.aspx?aid=33278&uid=aa11f5a4-8460-42fc-83f9-3b1441fb7c24 17 May, 2017]</ref> Also living there is Don Bridges, who was commissioned to create a memorial for the Emigrant Trail across the [[Lahontan Valley#Forty Mile Desert|Forty-Mile Desert]] in 2016. Featuring steel reliefs of three oxen and a wagon, it was installed at the 105 freeway exit south of Lovelock, where it was also visible from trains passing nearby.<ref>"Lovelock history monument taking shape", ''Inside Northern Nevada'',  [https://insidenorthernnevada.com/Content/Default/Lifestyles/Article/Lovelock-history-monument-taking-shape/-3/352/32169 22 February 2017]</ref>