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THBBETTY CHILSTROM 'TRAIN STATION' OIL PAINTING
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LiveMar 26, 2025
Live, Online, Telephone & Absentee Bidding Available McLaren Auction Services (Aurora Colony Auction House) 21507 Highway 99E NE Aurora, OR 97002 503-678-2441 www.mclarenauction.com McLaren Auction Services info@mclarenauction.com
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Original oil painting on board by listed Oregon artist, Betty Chilstrom (OR, 1924-2014), signed lower right. Features a colorful train station scene. Art measures 7.5" h x 9.5" w presented in a frame measuring 13" x 15". Artist bio: Chilstrom was an Oregon painter who used a distinctive impressionistic style to document buildings and scenes in the downtown and southeast neighborhoods of Portland through the second half of the twentieth century. Her husband Lee, then a railroad dispatcher for the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (later the Burlington Northern), designed an easel for Chilstrom that she attached to her car’s steering wheel. After she drove him to work, she was free to drive through the city’s neighborhood and downtown. When something caught her eye, she stopped the car, an old Ford LTD, and with her handy “front seat studio†completed hundreds of eight-by-ten-inch canvas boards. She wanted to paint without passersby stopping to look or make comments, and her parked car offered a small, private studio where she could paint at her leisure. Though Chilstrom worked in several media—including pastel, conte crayon, ink, pencil, and watercolor—she favored oils, which she believed were not as sensitive to light as watercolor and made it easier to frame her work. Her paintings were shown at exhibits at the Portland Art Museum in 1948, the Bush House Museum (now the Bush Barn Art Center) in Salem in 1958, the Oregon Society of Artists in Portland in 1959, and Portland City Hall in 1979. In 1999, the Oregon Historical Society opened a one-person show, Betty Chilstrom Paints the Town. Most recently, Through Her Eyes, an exhibit curated by her daughter Robin Chilstrom, was at the Cerimon House in northeast Portland.
Condition
Appears to be in good overall condition.
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