In the wringer: Hump-on-Hudson
(“Hump-on-Hudson” or Bear Mountain, by carolita johnson. Oil on canvasboard, 14×18.)
I suppose it’s better that it’s called “Bear Mountain,” rather than what I’ve been calling it in my ignorance: “The Hudson Hump,” or alternately, the “Hump-on-Hudson.” It’s fascinated me from the train window so often that I took a picture of it during a particularly dramatic weather condition which I then tried to render in a small oil painting. Here it is. It has place of honor in my oddly palatial bathroom, where the flourescent light actually becomes it. I’ll do a bigger one when I have the extra cash to splurge on inordinate amounts of oil paint.
It’s part of my planned “Train views” series. Here’s another train view, this one on the LIRR line near Woodside.
