EFG In The Sacramento Bee

A high-class orange

By Cathie Anderson
canderson@sacbee.com

Published: Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

Last Modified: Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 11:24 am

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Gallery owner Elliott Fouts doesn't employ subtlety when describing the color of the facade of his new space on P Street at 19th in midtown Sacramento.

The paint company describes it as terra cotta. Fouts calls it orange.

He has his reasons for the bolder descriptive: "We had a sign up saying that we were going to be moving, and people would ask, 'Where you going?' And we'd say, 'Corner of 19th and P,' and a blank look would descend on everyone's face. It's a relatively good-sized building, but it's so nondescript, so we fixed that."

Fouts grew up working in his dad's picture-framing store in Fresno. Later, he worked for Shirley Solomon Dubnick at Tower Gallery (not on Broadway, by the way) and then in 1999 went out on his own.

For seven years, he has sold vibrant still-life paintings and landscapes from tight quarters in east Sacramento. The new Elliott Fouts Gallery will open June 1 (at the latest) in almost double the space.

Fouts will have a sale before the May 20-22 move – offering as much as 50 percent off – to lighten the load.

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