I was at this museum about 5 years ago and remember a painting of some people in a subway, perhaps some walking down some steps, and others maybe just standing around. It was not a “realist” painting, but certainly not abstract in any way. I figure if you know the museum, there cannot be that many paintings of subways, so hopefully this is enough to go on.
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Moving to Cafe Society.
George Tooker’s The Subway is at the Whitney Museum in New York, but has been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Pennsylvania.
Yep. Thanks!
Hmm. Wait a minute. I’m pretty sure* I saw the painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, not the Academy. I have seen this, though. Anyone know of another, where as I recall, the palette was a bit darker, and the figures hidden more?
- At my age, this means nothing, btw.
Ooof! Those are some seriously unhappy people he put in that painting!
Unhappy, yes, but that station is so CLEAN!
I love that painting. I love George Tooker, period.
I need to own “Entertainers.”
Well, thank you all for introducing me to a painter I was previously unaware of. Deeply impressed. (No surprise to see Hopper listed as one of his influences.)
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(Gosh those paintings give me the creeps.)
Re Hopper, I never thought about it, but given that I love him, perhaps that’s why I was drawn to this one.
Don’t like creepy? Then don’t look at Government Bureau. Or do, because it’s wonderful.
“Creepy” is the underlying theme to nearly all the art in my house. There’s a framed reproduction of Khnopff’s I Lock the Door Upon Myself that our son used to refer to as “the creepy woman.”
You know what’s even worse? The Waiting Room.
I thought Hopper right away, with a dollop of Dali (not that Dali was an influence of his, but there’s definitely a surrealist vibe there).