DAVID O’DOHERTY ANTIQUE STEAM TRAIN LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING OLD LOCOMOTIVE 1965

Description: IMPORTANT ANTIQUE LOCOMOTIVE STEAM TRAIN IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY ACCLAIMED TRAIN PAINTER DAVID O’DOHERTY. (CIRCA 1965). THIS WORK DEPICTS A SLEEK BLACK LOCOMOTIVE POWERING PASS A TOWERING WATER WELL IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOUNTAINOUS DESERT. DAVID O’DOHERTY SKILLFULLY CAPTURES NOT JUST THE VISUAL SPECTACLE BUT ALSO THE ATMOSPHERE AND AMBIANCE OF THE STEAM BILLOWING FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE, ADDING A SENSE OF DYNAMISM AND POWER TO THE SCENE. THIS IS A VERY COOL COMMISSIONED PIECE. SIGNED AND DATED 1965 BY DAVID O’DOHERTY. THE PROVENANCE IS ON THE VERSO. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS INCLUDING THE FRAME: 23” H x 27” W Irish-American artist David O’Doherty was born and educated in Dublin. He held his first solo exhibition in June 1956 at the Little Theatre, Brown Thomas, and in the same year began exhibiting at the Irish Living Art Exhibitions. After five years in Paris in the late 1950s, he returned to Dublin and began showing with the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery and the Independent Artists Group. A joint show with Brian Bourke, John Kelly, and Michael Kane at Hendriks in 1963 was a critical success. In the mid-sixties he moved to London and thence to North America. Further exhibitions have been held in the Fustemburg Gallery, Paris, and the Kennedy Gallery, Washington DC. He is represented in the collection of the Crawford Gallery, Cork.

Price: 1350 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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