San Fernando Valley, California, 1973

In Diesel and Dinosaurs, for an essay entitled American Pictures: A Essential Historical past 1945 to the Provide, Jonathan Inexperienced wrote: ‘In Steve Fitch’s Diesels and Dinosaurs, the mythic presence of the Outdated West is found out in lately’s in style roadside tradition. Fitch pictures the diesel vehicles, roadside amusements, inns and hand-drawn indicators of the American freeway. His paintings mirrors that paradoxical American duality: a fascination with the environment friendly device and a reverence for wildness’