Wender·Vista
Chloride Arizona murals
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileArizona
in Mohave County, north of Kingman

Chloride Arizona murals

— — the cliff the painter came back to.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“Chloride sits at the foot of the Cerbat Mountains, about twenty-three miles north of Kingman. Outside town, on a wall of granite, the painter Roy Purcell left a cycle of murals in 1966 and returned forty years later to restore them. The town below holds about two hundred and fifty people. The paint outlasts almost everyone who comes to see it. from the studio

from the studio
Chloride Arizona murals
— bring it home

Chloride Arizona murals, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Chloride Arizona murals

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Chloride is a small unincorporated town in Mohave County, Arizona, about twenty-three miles north of Kingman along US-93. Prospectors founded the camp in the 1860s after silver chloride ore was struck in the Cerbat Mountains, and the post office opened in 1873, which Chloride claims as the longest continuously operating post office in Arizona. The 2020 census recorded a population near two hundred and fifty. The town sits at 3,963 feet at the western base of the Cerbats.

— informed by Wikipedia
— the stone

The murals are on a granite cliff face at the end of a rough dirt road about a mile and a half east of town. Roy Purcell, then a young artist working a mining job, painted the cycle he titled The Journey: Images from an Inward Search for Self over a few weeks in 1966. The work covers roughly two thousand square feet across several boulders and walls. Purcell returned in 2006 and again in 2018 to restore fading sections of the original paint.

— the visit

Viewing the murals is free and the cliff is on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The access track turns east off Tennessee Avenue past the cemetery and runs roughly a mile and a half over loose rock; a high-clearance vehicle is recommended and a passenger car may not make it. Chloride itself stages mock gunfights on the first and third Saturdays of most months on its dusty main street.

— informed by BLM Arizona
— where
United States · Mohave County, Arizona
— elevation
1,208 m · 3,963 ft
— position
35.4150° N · 114.1972° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
37 km S
Kingman
city
5 km E
Cerbat Mountains
mountain range
50 km N
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
national recreation area
N
Chloride Arizona murals
Kingman
Cerbat Mountains
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Chloride Arizona murals — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

A cycle of large symbolic paintings by Roy Purcell, titled The Journey: Images from an Inward Search for Self, painted on a granite cliff outside Chloride, Arizona in 1966 and restored by the artist in 2006.

An American painter and printmaker born in 1936. He was working in a Chloride mine in his twenties when he painted the murals. He later earned an MFA and continued painting Southwest landscapes for decades.

On a granite cliff about a mile and a half east of Chloride, on Bureau of Land Management land. The access road turns off Tennessee Avenue past the town cemetery and is rough enough to favour high-clearance vehicles.

Prospectors established the camp in the 1860s after silver chloride ore was struck in the Cerbat Mountains. The post office, which the town claims as the oldest continuously operating in Arizona, opened in 1873.

Not quite. The 2020 census counted roughly two hundred and fifty residents. It is a small living town that leans into its mining-era history with weekend gunfight reenactments and a few antique shops along the main street.

From Kingman, take US-93 north about twenty miles, then turn east onto Mohave County Route 125 for about four miles. The murals are signed from town and reached by a short, rough dirt road east of the cemetery.

— about the piece in your home

Yes. Chloride sits in the Kingman-Oatman corridor that Route 66 travellers stitch together. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio reads warmly for someone with ties to northwest Arizona.

The dust, rust, and slate-blue palette of the cliff suits desert-modern, mid-century Southwest, and earth-toned Eclectic rooms. It carries well against weathered wood, raw plaster, and warm leather.

Yes. Contemporary Southwest leans on muted ochre, slate, and dusty rose against warm whites, and the mural palette sits inside that range. The Large works as a focal piece for the room.

Above a standard sofa, choose a single Large or a four-tile Mural. Above a longer console, a nine-tile Mural reads as one continuous piece. A Medium suits a narrower wall.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both resist moisture and scratches and suit a backsplash, shower wall, or humid bathroom. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed display.

Microfibre cloth and water. The colour is infused into the ceramic surface under heat and pressure and sits beneath a thin glossy finish, so it cleans the way the tile does.

Yes. Reid Wender curates the WenderVista atlas and every piece is original to the studio. The work is hand-finished in Knoxville and never licensed from another publisher.

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