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Carolina Evening
by Andrew Harmantas
Oil on Russian linen on wood panel
Original Painting Image size 18" x 28"
Framed size 19" x 29" (narrow wood profile gallery frame)
"The Southern Serves the South" is not just a slogan. It is a fact rooted in the reality that the sprawling former
Southern Railway covered much of America's Southeast. I had watched trains on the Southern from back in the steam era,
and observed the passage of time on the locomotive fleet — from apple green paint to black, from gold leaf lettering
to imitation gold, and the evolution of locomotive types, including these high-hood GP38-2s, passing a tower in the
Carolinas. The late afternoon sun casts a strong side light, yet there is ambiguity introduced in the foreground from
an unseen object casting the closer locomotive in shadow. The track there had recently been worked on, but I was
unable to capture the smell of creosote.
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