1. Philip Latimer Dike
Copper

2. “The creative process is like the flight of birds, unpredictable….
Change is influenced by life patterns, the written work, people, places and things, and by the unpredictable nature of the growing person.”

3. About the artist
Grew up in a home in California with paintings done by his grandmother hanging on the walls.
He liked art and his high school art teacher encouraged him to enter a contest. He won and received a scholarship to Los Angeles’s Chouinard Art Institute.
Went on to the Art Students’ League in New York, where he became friends with Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.
Studied and traveled in Europe and North Africa and returned to California in 1931 to teach at Chouinard and work in the Fine Art Department at Walt Disney Studios.
Walt Disney had Dike teach advanced drawing and composition to his artists.
Dike worked on the movies Snow White and Fantasia.

4. About the painting
Copper has been used by humans for over 10,000 years and is still used for many things today
Copper was deposited under Arizona during the early formation of our planet, and is an essential part of the Arizona economy (5 C’s)
Two types of mining are represented
Underground mining, i.e. in Jerome
Open/pit mining, i.e. in Miami
Lines and light draw our attention to the copper plant
Painting makes us feel like we are looking down on the hills and copper plant from up high and far away

5. Jerome
Miami

6. Copper (1936)