Back when I was in college I had a print of a painting by an obscure male Canadian artist. I think his first name might have been Robert and I remember Alta Vista-ing out information that he was from the Maritimes.
It’s basically a horse running along the tracks straight into an oncoming train, which has the front light lighted. It’s in dark tones, seems to take place at night and is painted from the point of view of the horse…so you don’t really see his face, it’s from the back and it’s like you’re facing the oncoming train.
I really really loved this print but my sister’s roommate accidentally ripped it when she moved into my bedroom after I graduated and grandfathered the apartment over to my sister.
By the way, if it is not obscure and in fact famous, my pre-emptive apologies. I remember trying to research it on the internet 10 years ago and while I found the artist, I had a hard time coming up with much info on him. Then again, this was before the days of google.
Sorry, an old college chum from Canada just IM-ed it to me. If anyone is interested, it was Horse and Train by Alexis Colville. I’ll report the post if the mods want to close this thread.
Aannd, I have no idea how to report my own posts for this thread to be closed. Sorry about the pre-emptive posting, I had no idea my yuppie friends would even remember that damn print.
Whatever, dude. This is so typical, I ask a question and I KNEW someone would be along with a snarky query on how I phrased it or how famous Alex Colville is. I just want a print for my office and I struggled with describing the painting as well as I could, from 10 years ago. Your italics are so helpful for a question that has already been answered.
That painting was recently on exhibit at the art gallery here. One of my co-workers went to see it, and was surprised at how much darker it was than the print he had.
Can I just chime in that I also really like Colville’s paintings? I have a paperback poetry anthology that has one of his as a cover, and what would be better–words and images that you never forget.
Also that I jumped into the thread, because I knew exactly what artwork you were talking about.
