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Painting
Abandoned Railroad
Whitney F. Hoyt, 1910 - 1980
Hoyt, Whitney F.
United States
1910 - 1980
Male
27 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (69.9 x 100.3 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1940
1940
1940
1667
1900-2000, art with Rochester connections, landforms in art, paintings, trains
Painting
Rochester artist Whitney Hoyt skillfully used light, line, and composition to create this moody rumination on the relationship between technology and nature. Decades after he painted Abandoned Railroad, Hoyt continued to find his muse in the landscape. He wrote in November 1966, “I enjoy walking in the woods and fields. The mood, the atmosphere of things growing, of things decaying delight me . . . At heart I am a pantheist. Despite the computer, humanism is not dead.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
lower rightback of stretcherback of frameback of frame
Jerry Hoyt
1942.20
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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4x5
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42.20DI1
digital image
4/24/2002
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42.20DI#2
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11/20/2012
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