Editing Lovelock, Nevada (section)

==Lovelock in the arts==
[[File:CowpokeCafeLovelock.jpg|thumb|Cowpoke Cafe in Lovelock]]

===Songs===
Lovelock, with a population never much more than 2000, will generally be noticed only as a town passed on the way to somewhere else. Thus the debut album of the folk-rock band Center Divide, ''Lovelock to Winnemucca'' (1999), takes its title from a desert section of the [[Interstate 80 in Nevada|I-80 highway]] and the opening track, simply titled “Lovelock”, takes its inspiration from the passing landscape.<ref>Murrday Fisher review, [https://www.allmusic.com/album/lovelock-to-winnemucca-mw0000007689 All Music]</ref> On the other hand, an interrupted journey is the subject of the [[Hot Buttered Rum (band)|Hot Buttered Rum]] string band's "Limbo in Lovelock" (''Live in the Northeast'' 2007), where a motor breakdown leads to an enforced stop in the town and a visit to the local eatery, the Cowpoke Café.<ref>Full lyrics [http://www.morebutter.net/missyslist/song_details.php?id=29 online]</ref><ref>There is a performance on the [https://archive.org/details/HBRSB2005-06-24.flac16 Internet Live Music Archive]</ref>

===Poetry and fiction===
Lovelock has had a poet of its own in [[Adrian C. Louis]], who was brought up on the small reservation for the Lovelock Paiute Indians there. Even after he moved on, its Indian Cemetery was a point of reference for him to which he often returned in memory:
:::I'm at that place I grew up to leave.
:::Alkali-crusted [[sand waves]] have drifted against my markers of blood.<ref>"Indian Cemetery: Lovelock, Nevada", ''Fire Water World'', Albuquerque NM, 1989 ({{ISBN|0931122511}} / 0-931122-51-1)</ref> 
Other poems in which the town's name figures record the impressions of passing travellers. They include Shaun T Griffin's broadside, "Rain outside Lovelock, late March”<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700278898 Black Rock Press (Reno, 2010)]</ref> and two titles in the work of Kirk Robertson. "Lovelock to Twin Falls" dwells on abandoned shacks in the desert while “Monday Night, Lovelock” focuses on houses there surrounded by junk.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9myVDwAAQBAJ&q=Lovelock+to+Twin+Falls Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State], University of Nevada, 2016</ref>

[[Stephen Bly]]'s Wild West novel ''Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats'' (Crossway Press, 2003) deals with the area along the river before the town was built. In the opening chapters, an orphaned [[Pony Express]] rider comes across Trent Lovelock and his family on Humboldt Flats in 1860 and is befriended by them.<ref>The first two chapters are currently available [http://www.gnpcb.org/assets/products/excerpts/1581344724.1.pdf online]</ref> The author has acknowledged that he had the town's later founder in mind in his fictitious Trent Lovelock.<ref>“Lovelock Avatars”, ''Lovelock Lines'' 6, December 2007 [http://lovelock.free.fr/l-lines/lovelock-lines-6th-ed.pdf p.7]</ref>

Another novel, ''Lovelock, Nevada: an explanation'' (Booklocker, 2010) by Leslie Hale Roberts, plays another variation on the transient theme, starting with a breakdown in the desert.<ref>Detail on [https://www.amazon.co.uk/LOVELOCK-NEVADA-Leslie-Hale-Roberts/dp/160910188X Amazon]</ref> And a stopover in the town was the subject of Fred Leebron's prize-winning short story “Lovelock”, later adapted into his novel ''Out West'' (Doubleday 1996). There an ex-convict staying overnight at a motel picks up a retarded woman and guiltily sees her and her sister off in their car the next morning.<ref>[https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/engfac/7 The Cupola, Gettysburg College]</ref>

===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>