Charlie Hunter
Bellows Falls, VT
Charlie Hunter is a cheerful guy who paints drippy portraits of decaying American infrastructure in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
MessageThis is the old Freight House (now gone) and Coal Elevator (now gone) on the Island in Bellows Falls, one afternoon in the late 1950's. As I was working on this, I realized I was -in essence- dedicating the painting to a towering figure in Bellows Falls, gone too soon - Mike Harty. I don't know if he gave two hoots about the freight house, but as I was working on the painting, I kept thinking of Mike, 'the best neighbor ever,' who I miss very much.
Thanks so much to David Hutchinson for allowing me to create a painting from one of his old photos.
- Subject Matter: Railroad