Horrible DQ painting

and here's the one we were talking about... how could someone get so many of the details correct and then louse it up bigtime with the stacks???? http://cgi.ebay.com/DELTA-QUEEN-PADDLE-BOAT-OIL-PAINTING-H-HARGROVE-20x24_W0QQitemZ130076835807QQihZ003QQcategoryZ20135QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Judy,

You have to admit, the thought of loading her with cargo from the fantail is rather humorous as well!

~Travis~

The Titanic called, it wants 2 of it's smokestacks back!!!!

After studying the painting I have come to several conclusions. That bridge builder Roebling never could get things straight, the stadium is falling toward Kentucky so now I know why they imploded it, the bearings are gone on the port side of the wheel. After studying it I had to take an anti-vertigo pill

Several years ago when the first painting appeared on Ebay, I contacted the seller and told him how inaccurate it was, and how could he expect $99 or whatever the starting bid was, and his answer was: the artist is well-known. So I guess if you've made a name for yourself, it doesn't matter how bad your work is, people will pay for your name! But I don't ever remember seeing any of these prints sell on Ebay anyway.

Rarely it seems, you will find a unique and accurate artist's treasure of the Delta Queen. Last week on eBay was an auction for a cross-stitch pattern, the same one that I bought on eBay for Debbie a few years back.

Finished, it's wonderful and hangs proudly on our memory wall. And, Deb forced me...some of the stitches of the paddle wheel wake are mine.

Bruno

All I can figger, she's lying to at Vevay and those are the stacks on the power plant at Ghent, Ky behind it. Like Judy, how'd he get ANYTHING correct and commit such error. That feller loadin' better watch the slack don't come outta that moring line or it is an early dip for him. Mebbe he's a loadin a barrel of steam for the chief engineer. Cap'n Walnut.

Cap'n Walnut may be on to something here.

Some years ago, I received as a gift a very nice pencil drawing of an early 4-4-0 locomotive. It is quite well rendered - a splendid piece of art - except that some large indescribable protrusion rises up from the tender! I have always assumed that two things were at work here: (1) an artist who was highly skilled but knew nothing of locomotive design and (2) that he or she worked from a photograph, and in that photograph something else was behind the locomotive's tender.

Perhaps somewhere there was once a photo made of the "Delta Queen" with something in the background, and an unknowing artist just assumed it was part of the boat.....?

This is a photograph that would fit that description:

Delta Queen with Three Stacks

Perfect! And with an extra deck too! That's what that hidden pilothouse on the MQ does for her, blends her into the scenery. At least the DQ was in front.

Actually I have a copy bought from eBay-- mainly for laughs that cost me less than 20 bucks including shipping. However, the artist did a great job of rendering the DELTA QUEEN except for the double stacks and the odd-ball stern-first landing. (The head must be run hard aground to hold as she lies.) We have all seen stores loaded through the doors on the U-shaped deck for'd of the engine room, so the way the boat is landed, loading onto the port fantail seems perfectly logical. I see Cap’n Lexie’s signboard. What year would that be?

She painted that on in 1975. I think the Voyages to America banner is on the Sun Deck railing. That came off after 1978. So this is between 1975-78.

Thanks Bruno. Your cross-stitch piecework also mades a handsome "wallpaper" for a computer monitor. try it.

Finally found the pix I've been looking for this week: How do you like the MQ with her new taller stacks? Or the DQ with 3 stacks? These tall extra stacks are on land a couple of docks above Robin St., at an old power plant in NOLA.

Here's an equally distorted painting by the same person. Hmm, maybe an eyesight problem? There's a lot of inaccuracies in this one too!

S'
David D.