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30/07/2006 6:08 pm
And here is another painting Alan Bates sent to be posted. Alan, your comments, please 😉
Franz
30/07/2006 8:58 pm
This a kind of mystery painting. This sidewheeler is landing at some lonely place on the Ohio, maybe Lower Rusty Landing, Kentucky, and maybe not. It's a pretty routine thing, for the only people in sight are a deckhand on the stage with the head line, and the mate back there by the stairway with a passenger. The captain is up on the roof and it is cold. Maybe it is just after dawn, or just before dusk - or maybe a storm is brewing. Kind of a brooding thing; I must have been off my feed that day. I do not recall when I painted it or to whom I gave it. It must be at least 30-35 years old. I'd like to see it again sometime, so if anyone knows where it is, let me know, please. The river isn't always sunny and fair.
31/07/2006 2:18 pm
Atmosphere is an important part of a painting. Gives it life. A sense of being there. It's almost as if you were sitting on the shore, painting away as the packet approached. Are there more?
31/07/2006 2:52 pm
Lexie, as far as I can recall I have made seven steamboat paintings. Minnie Bay is a Grandma Moses representation and one of my granddaughters has it. 3 watercolors of the Belle of Louisville, none worth reproducing or posting. An oil of the Tom Greene, and the two that have been posted. There could have been more, but I was loath to quit my daytime job.
I own four steamboat paintings by others: Robert P. Gillham, by Harlan Hubbard; Kate Adams, by Marion Sue Thompson; and Indiana, by Jesse P. Hughes; and Oakland, by John Hartford. All are better than mine.