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From his first glossy depictions of Sacramento to pickup trucks to more contemplative evocations of rural diners and their habitués, Ralph Goings has laid claim to a quintessentially American subject matter and has created a body of work that ensures his position as one of our foremost twentieth-century realists.
Excerpt from an essay by Linda Chase