Back in May I took a little trip up to Shreveport and discovered some old railroad equipment behind the old Central Railroad Station. I was really surprised to find the abandoned rail cars just sitting there under the freeway and thought that they would be the perfect subject matter for a series of photographs.
After I had posted the photos here on my website, I was contacted by the renowned Tallahassee / Baton Rouge artist Cindy Hanson who was inspired by one of my images and sought my permission to do a painting of it. I was honored that someone like her had taken interest in my photography, so I was more than happy to oblige.
It took a little time, but yesterday Ms. Hanson revealed her finished work and I was thrilled to finally see it. I think that the painting perfectly captures the true essence of the scene. She obviously saw the same nuances in the scene that I did as a photographer.
Here is my original image:
You can see that she did an amazing job of interpreting this scene into the medium of oil paint on canvas.
You can purchase this painting, along with prints of it, at the Cindy Hanson Fine Arts Gallery here -
The Shreveport Ghost TrainAbout Cindy Hanson:
My oil paintings initially concentrated on refineries. These paintings are inspired by my dad's career in Baton Rouge as a research scientist for Humble Oil, later Esso, then Exxon, and subsequently, ExxonMobile, for many years and by artists’ oil paintings I’ve seen in New Orleans. I like to take something which, at first glance, some may deem ugly but yet is interesting, and then paint the refinery or structure as something you've never seen before and make it surreal, mysterious, compelling and maybe, on occasion, beautiful. There are maybe 150 refineries between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and you cannot get more deep south than this. I paint hotels, wetlands, alligators and some commissions and have recently made a category called "Favorite Places in the World" for my commissions. I consider my oil refineries (and container ships) as Louisiana paintings as they typify the hard work performed without fanfare by workers in Louisiana and for that matter, workers throughout the world. My paintings of oil refineries are hard to conceptualize and are difficult. My painting subjects are always expanding and evolving." - Cindy Hanson
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Horwitch launched the careers of hundreds of artists across the country and championed contemporary Native American art, Latino art, folk art, outsider art, and craft. She opened the first Elaine Horwitch Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1973, followed by locations in Santa Fe in 1976, Sedona, Arizona, in 1986, and Palm Springs, California, in 1987. In a region steeped in historic and Western art traditions, Horwitch helped establish the Southwest as an important center for contemporary art and to foster the rise of what has been called “new Western art” or “contemporary Southwest art.”
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