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Standing on Main Street: The Story of America's Route 66 in Paintings

Name: Standing on Main Street: The Story of America's Route 66 in Paintings
Brand: Elise Zoller
SKU: 9798218819385
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Contributors:

Elise Zoller

Publisher:

Elise Zoller

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Art, History, Travel

Book Subcategory:

Subjects & Themes, Historical Geography, Special Interest

Book Topic:

Buildings & Cityscapes, Roadside Attractions

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Release Date:

11/20/2025

ISBN 13:

9798218819385

Weight:

1.29 lbs

Size:

10.75 x 8.25 x 0.38 inches

Pages:

100

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Route 66 is America's 2,400 mile Main Street. Since its inception as one of the country's first all-weather highways in 1926, Route 66 has become one of the most famous roads in the United States. In its hundred-year history, songs have been dedicated to it. Hundreds of thousands of people have traveled it by car and on foot. Movies, television shows, and books have been inspired by it. The Route runs diagonally from Chicago to Los Angeles, covering eight states and three time zones.

Elise Zoller, a classically trained realist painter, has spent the last several years standing on streets along the Route, painting what she saw, and recording the stories of the people who visited with her while she was working. She met bartenders, traveling buskers, school teachers, theater directors, hair dressers, paranormal experts, drug dealers, ranchers, tattoo artists, international travelers, and the occasional fellow painter. She made 48 paintings.

A metaphor for our country and our attempt to unify wildly different cultures, Route 66 was cobbled together from muddy tow paths, rutted wagon routes, pre-existing toll highways, and new roads cut through fresh terrain to connect the old roads. American Indians have lived on the land for tens of thousands of years and European settlers for ten generations. Each state through which the Route passes has its own history and cultures, interwoven with triumphs and defeats.

This is a book that explores the history and the people of Route 66 through paintings and stories begun on its Main Streets and finished in Elise's studio.

Route 66 celebrates its 100th birthday in 2026. Its history is a testimony to American creativity, grit, ruthlessness and chutzpah.

About the Author
Zoller, Elise: - Elise Zoller is a classically trained realist painter, specializing in plein air work. She is a graduate of Princeton University in architecture and has studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Realist Art in Boston and the University of Utah. As Artist in Residence, she accompanied Arrangements Abroad trips to Russia, Belgium, Holland, France, and the Caribbean in 2018 and 2019. She provided the pen and ink illustrations for Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America by Ron Strickland, Oregon State UniversityPress, April 2011. She exhibits her paintings in New England and the Southwest. Watch for her out on the road and follow her travels via Instagram @elisezoller.

Standing on Main Street: The Story of America's Route 66 in Paintings

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