Artist Francis Quirk's Train Locomotive Watercolors

We continue bringing to light the works of Francis Quirk by sharing two striking watercolor images of a train locomotive with an adjacent freight car. The images  capture the engine obliquely from the front with smoke rising from an active boiler fire. 

Watercolor Train Locomotive Image by Artist Francis Quirk

Watercolor Locomotive Image by Artist Francis Quirk

The House in the background of the second painting is reminiscent of Edward Hopper's work. It may be that Quirk's watercolors were executed when Quirk was in Cape Cod Massachusetts as a young man in the early 1930's. For perspective we are including a few train related works of Hopper below. Several of these works were executed in the 1920's on the Cape or in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Given the geographic proximity of the two artists and the similarity of their work, it is fair to assume that Hopper had a significant influence on Francis. 

Locomotive and Freight Car by Edward Hopper

D. & R. G. Locomotive by Edward Hopper

Freight Car at Truro by Edward Hopper

House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper

Railroad Train by Edward Hopper

Circus Wagon 1926 by Edward Hopper

Locomotive by Edward Hopper