Set in Santa Catalina Island, California.  Chewing Gum tycoon William Wrigley Jr. purchased 9/10 of the island in 1919.  One of the things that he built was the casino featured in this painting. However, this “casino” has nothing to do with gambling, but named after the Italian word “casino” which means “a place for festivities.”  It was built with a theatre with a pipe organ, museum, and a grand ballroom. The casino was used in World War II as a carrier for military arms and as a surveillance watch post against a possible Japanese invasion. The arch is the entrance to all the sites of Santa Catalina Island.

If you want to capture the way midday light warms up stone, you have to move quickly. I had just finished this glorious arch on Catalina Island's Via Casino when the light shifted and the look of things changed dramatically.

— Thomas Kinkade