A painting by Edward Hopper, “Chair Car” has been sold for 14 Million US-$. Railroad-paintings seem to become expensive these days
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P.S. Hopper painted other railroad-subjects. Is anyone able to post a pic?
Go here:
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/Edward%20Hopper/index_hopper.html
or just do “Edward Hopper” in Google.
He did many:
Approaching a City
Compartment C, Car 293
Manhattan Bridge Loop
House by the Railroad
My favorite:
Railroad Sunset
None show running trains, mostly they include railroad motifs.
That “chair car” is really a parlor car[:0][8D]!
Did Edward Chair do a painting entitled “Hopper Car”? [}:)]
Certainly that would have been the case if it had been a Pullman car, however, this was painted in 1965 – post-Pullman era – on a commuter train, and they may have well called it a chair car. Strange that where there should be an exit there seems to be a wall.
He sure did some nice paintings.
The freight car in Truro is marvelous.
Carl, Hopper car is perfect!
I agree that it is a parlor car, regardless of era. “Chair car” seems, as I understand it, to have been originally railroad-speak for a slightly more luxurious coach. Instead of the single-unit, walk-over seats found, for instance, on commuter coaches, the implication was that chair cars would have two separate seats side-by-side, either of which might recline. But later, there seemed to be no real difference between “chair car” and “coach.”
Individual seats that swiveled were always parlors, as far as I hyave heard the term used.
Larry
Is it the late Mr. Hopper? Either way at 14 mill he could probably give a rat’s whether it is a chair car or a parlor car.
Jay
Hopper passed away in 1967. One of the great American artists, no doubt, and one of my favorites…even with non-railroad subjects.
Yes, however, it mostly went to the owner, and you can be sure during Hopper’s life he never sold a painting that got him anything close to 14 big ones. On that same link above you’ll see Nighthawks, one of the most reproduced of all paintings by an American artist. It’s at the Art Institute in Chicago, in the same gallery in fact as American Gothic, the most reproduced of American paintings.
I think you have that confused with the boxcars with shackles
It is funny how many different artists have tried to portray th e logical extension of the concept of Nighthwks, as IF they knew anything about what Hopper had in mind.
Strangely enough, Hopper did an additional painting that he described as the logical extension of concept behind Nighthawks, it is called “Sunlight inside a Cafeteria”
and here is a copy:
