Here’s mine, by Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
Painting or artist??
Either way, it’s Ted Rose Tower 55. A close second would be another Rose painting, “Gateway” (CNW Lake St Curve, mid 1950’s).
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Turner. Rain, Steam and Speed:
http://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/artist/turner-rain-steam.htm
Either that or Cuneo.
Ted Rose- Missouri River Rambler
Always liked the Pennsy picture of Uncle Sam rolling up his sleeves while surrounded by smokestacks galore and an M1(If I remember right) on the point of a freight that looks like it’s going around Mach 2.3 or so. Anybody know who painted that one?
CopCarSS- Dean Cornish Serving The Nation
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/art/images/1943.jpeg
Artist - Ted Rose
Favorite Painting(s) : State Line Tower, Three Men and a Camel
Ocean Limited by Alex Colville.
“Thunder over the Potomac” by Mark Johnson.
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Joe
That’s the one! Thanks for the info and the link!
Howard Fogg’s “Lehigh Valley PAs, meeting FAs,FBs.” With a Valley PA coming at the viewer, from the vantage point of the cab of a trailing FA! Any one know where one can find a link to it? I am at a loss on that sort of thing.
Grif Teller’s “On Time”-a K4 running fast through a snowstorm. The Broadway is OT, PRR is the Standard Railroad, God’s in His heavan and all’s right with the world.
My favorite RR painting is by local artist Gail Ketterhagen, and depicts the original Wisconsin Central passenger depot in Burlington, WI circa 1900-1910.
“ALCOS ON THE CENTRAL” featuring the Central of Gerogia railway.
The painting titled “As the Centuries Pass in the Night” showing the east and west bound 20th Century Limiteds roaring by each other, don’t know the artist.
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Has anyone heard of an artist named Wills?
My favorite is a large lithograph(?) of a UP 4-12-2 pulling a train uphill in winter, probably in Wyoming or Utah. It’s numbered 4 / 950 and dated '77. I have another of an unidentified 4-6-0 with a local at a station with a coaling tower and water tank, also in winter, probably on the plains. It’s number 3 of 950, but dated '78.
I found both at a garage sale by a retired management employee of the Illinois Central.
Second the motion.
Artist was William H. Foster.
That is certainly one of my favorite train paintings because it successfully uses impressionism to convey a sense of speed, power, and steam, although Turner is usually associated with Romanticism, which pre-dated impressionism. It also is one of those early images of the industrial revolution which portrays it optimistically. (The Fighting Temeraire, however, is my favorite Turner painting. It shows a more poignant side to the industrial age, a sailing ship headed for the breakers.) Although most associate Claude Monet, an impressionist, with scenes of nature and still-lifes, trains were a favorite motif of his, such as in Gare de Saint-Lazare.
Because of his impressionistic style and his great output of consistently high quality work, Ted Rose is my favorite railroad artist. My favorite painting of his is “View from the Bridge,” which shows a GN passenger express leaving Seattle at dusk. See also “In the Traces, Railroad Paintings of Ted Rose,” 2000, Indiana University Press.
BTW, the earliest oil painting I know of that portrays a train is John Dobbin’s opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (1825). It’s so early that it shows a horseman leading the locomotive.