Re: (rshsdepot) FW: (erielack) Review: Murals Commissioned For The NJT Secaucus TransferStation (long)

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

I've seen some great concerts at Maxwell's, it is just around the corner
from the Elysian Fields remnant...usually the concerts end, the PATH train
sits at Pavonia for a long time and one misses the last LIRR to Long Beach
until something like 3:42 AM...

Hoboken is the best little city in the country...well, unless I count
Capitola as a city...or Flushing

Babbling,
Paul Luchter
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From: jdent1_@_optonline.net <jdent1@optonline.net>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:43 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) FW: (erielack) Review: Murals Commissioned For The NJT
Secaucus TransferStation (long)


The following is an interesting post from the EL list regarding the artwork
that will be adorning the walls of the not-yet-completed Secaucus Transfer
Station in NJ.

Original Message:
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From: David Goessling dmg_@_library.ho.lucent.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:54:08 -0400

I took a ride over to the Palmer Gallery at the NJ Center for the Visual
Arts in
Summit at lunch, to have a look at this show. Unfortunately, today was the
last
day to see it!

The two artists whose work is on display are Valeri Larko and Tim Daly. Both
artists are from NJ, and their styles are pretty different, but they both
have
histories of painting decaying and wasted industrial landscapes in New
Jersey.
Past subjects include abandoned power plants, empty storage tanks, old
factory
buildings, etc.

The paintings will be displayed in the Secaucus Transfer Station, whenever
it
opens.  Larko's are large, mural-like, long (20 feet+). Her style is
realistic,
but a bit childlike. They all have a train in them though! There's one of
an EL
passenger train on the Delaware Water Gap bridge, one of an NJT commuter
run on
the Brielle bridge, one on the bridge that crosses the Delaware River into
West
Trenton, and a beautiful PRR GG1 in Newark.

Here's a link to a site that gives you an idea of her style:

http://www.tfaoi.com/am/4am/4am92.jpg

and this page has a tiny reproduction of one of the Water Gap painting in
the
show:

http://www.goleader.com/02may16/


There's little explanation at the exhibit of exactly where they will be in
the
station, but an NY Times article says that the art is to be installed at a
height of 11 feet.

Tim Daly has a long fascination with the Meadowlands and particularly the EL
lift bridges, signal bridges and catenary around West End. He will have 32
paintings in the new station. Seven are in the current exhibition. In the
paintings on view at least, no trains are evident. He has concentrated on
signs
and accouterments.

He often paints these subjects around sunset (with that characteristic
Jersey
contrail tracery in the sky) or at night. He used to do a lot of paintings
from
the cemetery off Tonnelle Circle. There's an amazing early example at
Maxwell's
in Hoboken, if you ever get in there... I vaguely knew Tim when I moved to
Hoboken in the early '80s and kick myself that I was too broke to buy any
of his
stuff then. It's really beautiful.

Here are some online samples, unfortunately only a couple RR related:

http://www.jerseyarts.com/showcase/gallery/exhibits/1999_03/daly/gallery_dal
y.html

and

http://www.sherryfrenchgallery.com/daly.html

The paintings in the show are mostly on the Boonton branch (Paul...). There
are
prints of some of the paintings as well. Most of the paintings are big, the
largest is of the barren station platform at Stirling, probably 15 feet
long.
Here's a list:

+painting =print

"Stirling" + (a very large painting of dark trees from the platform at dusk)
"Catenary, Jersey City" + (very stark side view)
"Signal Tower 267" = + (looking up at the signal mast and lights,
beautiful!)
"Mountain Lakes" + = (the steps going down to the street)
"Two Bridges, Boonton" + = (the RR and 287, from above and to the side...)
"Stationmaster" + (Denville Junction, I think, with the parking lot and
tower.
There's actually a train in this one...)
"Checkered Bridge, Bergen County" + (don't know where, but one of the
characteristic Erie underpasses...)
"Broad Street Station Tower, Newark" + = (looking up at the clock tower
from the
platform - awesome, a big painting!)
"Kearny Turnpike" +

One of the other paintings to go in the station that's not in the show is
of the
clock at Hoboken Terminal. Here's an article with a (small) repro of that:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5075129&BRD=1292&PAG=461&dept_id=1
52072&rfi=6

Unfortunately there were no repro postcards! Major bummer! I would have
scanned
one to post... The prints, much smaller than the paintings, would be great
to
have. They were in editions of 300, I think, and no prices listed, but I bet
they'd be in the upper $100's.

Tim's studio is in the Neumann Leather builidng on Observer Highway in
Hoboken,
and he'll be open on the October Hoboken Artists Studio Tour. Maybe he'll
have
postcards there...

Sorry to be so long-winded...and sorry more people couldn't have seen this
great
show!

dmg

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