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Abandoned Railroad
194027 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (69.9 x 100.3 cm)
Whitney F. Hoyt
United States (Rochester, NY, 1910 - 1980)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Purchased through Anonymous Gift and Gallery Funds from the Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1942.20
Location: Not currently on view
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]
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: W. F. Hoyt
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by the Gallery in 1942
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Paintings by 15 Artists from the Great Lakes Exhibition 1/10/1941 - 00/00/00
- Selections from the Permanent Collection Summer 1975
- Exhibition of Rochester Artists at Tyler House Gallery 3/30/1979 - 4/27/1979
- A Rochester Retrospective 8/1/1980 - 9/21/1980
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: "Abandoned Railroad" by Whitney F. Hoyt. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 7, Issue Number: 5. Issue Date: May-June 1942 . Page Number: 4
- ARTnews. New York, New York: ARTnews Associates
- Memorial Art Gallery. A Rochester Retrospective: Painting and Sculpture, 1880-1950. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1980.
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It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013