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Railway Imagery: When Artists Look Down the Track

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Walter Hinteler
 
Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 01:53 am
I like those paintings (especially the Pissarro) :wink:


From today's (New York) Sun [print edition: 09.06.08, front page and page 16)

http://i32.tinypic.com/1zvskqo.jpg


http://i29.tinypic.com/ibhr3l.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 01:56 am
Quote:
When Artists Look Down the Track
Railway Imagery Is Explored At Two Museums
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:07 pm
I remember loving some railroad paintings - this'll make me try to remember them.

Will be back with some examples.
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:16 pm
http://photos-364.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v287/153/5/697154364/n697154364_973399_8248.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:20 pm
Oooh, that's GREAT, Dag.




Here's a famous painting, from the Art Institute in Chicago - Monet's Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877


http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/images/Monet-train_lg.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:27 pm
I think, Turner can be labeled to have painted as first the way to modern times ...


http://i27.tinypic.com/b8qr9i.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:35 pm
Haven't found this photo's history yet, but it is from a link on this site -
http://blog.usa.gov/roller/govgab/tags/history

http://history.utah.gov/news_and_events/currents/images/photo-Train_001.jpg




Manet's The Railway


http://www.nga.gov:80/image/a00006/a0000681.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:35 pm
love that Turner painting...
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:48 pm
http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/michigan/lumberingIMG/large/PH2444.gif

That could easily be my grandfather sitting on that log. This is how Detroit and Chicago were built/rebuilt.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:53 pm
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000003/4230_178696.jpg

The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing
Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, 1874

(another one from Chicago's Art Institute)
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:56 pm
There are a lot of good photos on this site -
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGall2.asp?catID=248&style=&contestCatID=


They are copyright careful. Slightly reminiscent of the Turner is a photo by Connie Bagot... (page 2)
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 12:58 pm
I'm remembering that Ragman has a strong photo of a train station on his collection website. Maybe he'll see this thread and post it here.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 03:05 pm
List of movies with TRAINS -

http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=189
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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 03:10 pm
from canadian atist alex colville

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/canadacouncil/archives/prizes/ggvma/2003/images/high_res/Colville_04.jpg

Horse and Train, 1954
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 03:12 pm
Wow.... dj.
Tricky installation, or is that the caboose?
or 'shopping'..

I was just looking some more at the BetterPhoto link; my favorite so far is on page 8, Marilyn Cain's End of the Train.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 03:16 pm
Trivia about colville's horse and train

His painting "Horse and Train" (1954), was inspired by two lines from the poet Roy Campbell:
"Against a regiment I oppose a brain
And a dark horse against an armored train."

"Horse and Train" appears on the cover of the album Night Vision by Bruce Cockburn.

Alex Colville and his painting "Horse and Train" are mentioned in the introduction (and in the story itself) of Nova Scotia fiction writer Barry Wood's short story Nowhere to Go published in England's Postscripts #14 in 2008.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 03:19 pm
Oh, d'oh. I missed it was a painting. I demote myself to back of the class.


Evocative.
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Ragman
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2008 05:25 pm
As requested, here's my pix taken in a subway station in NYC:

http://image20.webshots.com/21/0/56/56/233805656ydCxkG_ph.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2008 05:48 pm
FORBIDDEN!!

Well, to me, anyway.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2008 05:52 pm
me too
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