Alice Street series, an important theme for Arneson inspired by his experience living in a ranch house in Davis, California in the 1960's. The Alice Street house became a personal and symbolic icon of suburban life, In 1966, he began an eight year series on his, "ticky-tacky house," on the corner of "L" and Alice Street in Davis, California. To Arneson, "Alice was terrific, Alice in Wonderland," and he endowed her with a live persona in his Work.[17] He rendered three-dimensional sketches on site, like a plein air painter, and later glazed them in his studio. The subject of Clay Sketch of Alice Street, 1966- 67, may be banal -- a diorama of a middle-American domain -- but its painterly rendering, including a surprising abstraction in the backdrop, has remarkable chromatic variation in its low fire glazes on white earthenware. The clay sketch was one of three maquettes leading to an 8 x 8 foot replica of "Alice': Arneson fired the work in sixty pieces and became the first ceramic sculptor to utilize such a modular system since Della Robbia in 15th century Italy.