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“BUFFALO MY CITY”
The artwork contained in this web site is courtesy of Dr. V. Roger Lalli, the artist, and Boncraft Printing, publisher of Dr. Lalli’s works. Career Partners International, LLC/RW Caldwell Associates, Inc. thanks both Dr. Lalli and Boncraft for permission to highlight these beautiful watercolors.
In 1989, Dr. Lalli, a retired educator and lifelong resident of Buffalo, concluded that he could best express his admiration for his hometown by painting a series of watercolors devoted to architectural scenes that characterize “his city.” Dr. Lalli has termed his genre paintings and transparent or “pristine” watercolor process as “photo-realism” and he is undisputedly a master of the transparent watercolor technique. The forty-two subjects chosen for the “Buffalo My City” watercolor series, which must be presently standing, are all found within the forty-two square miles of Buffalo’s city limits.
Twenty-one of Dr. Lalli’s watercolors were selected for this web site. For a complete representation of all current watercolors by Dr. Lalli, please visit:
http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/document_376_58.html
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Frank Lloyd Wright's 1904-1906 "Darwin Martin House" |
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"The Buffalo Club" members have included three presidents; Fillmore, Cleveland, and Taft |
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"Temple Beth Zion" |
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"Buffalo Lighthouse" built in 1833 |
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"The International Peace Bridge" to Canada |
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"Buffalo City Hall"; an art deco marvel |
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"Buffalo's Three Towers of Power"; spiritual, electrical, and financial |
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Fully Restored "Shea's Buffalo" Center for the Performing Arts |
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"Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens" in Buffalo's Olmsted Park System |
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"Erie Community College City Campus" |
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"Edmund Hayes Hall" of the State Univ. of NY at Buffalo |
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"Buffalo Yacht Club" |
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"Braun Cadillac" formerly the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Showroom |
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"Delaware Park Casino" in Frederick Law Olmsted's park setting |
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Classical Revival "Albright-Knox Art Gallery" designed by E.B. Green |
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"Buffalo Savings Bank" with famous gold dome now owned by M & T Bank |
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"Market Arcade," Buffalos first mall constructed in 1892 |
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"Wilcox Mansion", site of Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural (following McKinley's assasination) |
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"Parkside Candy", site of the soda shoppe scene in "The Natural" |
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The "Anchor Bar;" Buffalo Chicken Wings originated here in 1964 |
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"Buffalo Historical Society Building" constructed as 1901 Pan American Exposition host building |
