ILLINOIS CENTRAL MOGUL

Illinois Central Mogul, 14 x 10 inch watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I painted this at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.  The name "mogul" describes a type of steam locomotive based on the number and arrangement of its leading, driving, and trailing wheels.  A mogul is a 2-6-0, meaning it has two leading wheels, six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.

A HOUSE IN THE INDIANA DUNES

Beach House, Beverly Shores, Indiana, 12 x 16 inch watercolor by George C. Clark    SOLD

I painted this some years ago while attending a party hosted by a fellow Midwest Air Force Artists member in the house at the right of the painting.  I looked for the house on a recent visit to the dunes, but it and its neighbors are no longer there-- casualties apparently of the expansion of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

STONE DECK, MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN

Stone Deck, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, 10 x 14 inch watercolor by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

See it now at the Longbranch Gallery, 203 Commerce Street, Mineral Point, Wisconsin.  This is the first of a series of Mineral Point (and vicinity) subjects.

GRAND UNION CANAL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Grand Union Canal, Northamptonshire, 12 x 16 inch watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I found this scene just up the towpath from Britain's Canal Museum in the town of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire.

MACAW THE KNIFE

Macaw the Knife, 16 x 12 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I found this macaw in a private zoo in the far western suburbs of Chicago where I was accompanying a college art teacher friend and his class of painting students.  There were antelopes and mountain goats brahma cattle and horses and big cats, but none of them seemed willing to hold still for more than a few minutes at a time.  This bird was in a big cage on a shady porch with a blank wall behind him, and while he did move around some, he always returned to this position watching the other animals out in front of him.

This painting and several others that I have posted here (Kathryn's Irises, Jungfernsteig Bridge in Hamburg, and Marienplatz, Munich, among others) are currently in a a secret four artist exhibition I am in in the lobby of a luxury 300 unit condo building downtown on the Chicago River.  I call it secret because it's not open to the public.  I could show it to you, but I would have to take you there myself and let building security know we are coming.  The show is for  the building's residents and their guests.  I have been in exhibitions there before and I do them because work does sell there, including a painting of mine.  Plus they do a very nice party for the opening, to which the artists can invite a very limited number of guests.

A STILL LIFE IN WOODSTOCK

Kathryn's Irises, Woodstock, Illinois, 14 x 10 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   SOLD

The Sunday before Memorial Day we drove out to Woodstock to paint in the garden of friends there.  Halfway there the sky opened up and it rained heavily for much of the afternoon.  Our hostess went out with an umbrella and harvested some irises for us to paint indoors.

Work in progress

TRAM IN BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Tram in Basel,  23 x 29 inch oil and pencil on paper painting by George C. Clark   PRINT AVAILABLE

I liked the look of the four-wheeled streetcars they had in Basel, but they wouldn't hold still long enough for me to draw them, so I painted this from my photographs.  The bearded passenger with the hat is a self-portrait.  This painting was accepted at one of the juryings for the Art Rental and Sales Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago, back in the days when the museum supported and exhibited Chicago artists.  A few months later I was walking down Michigan Avenue and I glanced into the plate glass front of the Michigan Avenue National Bank, and there in the lobby on a big square pillar facing me was Tram in Basel.  The bank kept it for two rental periods, then returned it to the gallery where it was purchased by a private collector.  Unframed 12 x 16 inch prints of this painting are available for $10 at the Museum Store of the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois.