Wentworth folkins biography
Wentworth folkins biography
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His paintings captured what steam transportation meant to individuals and society more evocatively than words can express. The many train trips that a young Wentworth made with his engineer father during the 1930s and 1940s left an indelible impression with the impact of the railroad on a young and growing country.
Folkins knew very well that his artwork was about a vanished people and a vanishing lifestyle, not just about steam trains and steamships that were supplanted by the diesel engine era in the mid-1950s.
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Wentworth painted a number of different railways on his travels throughout Canada, United States, United Kingdom and countries in Europe.
Wentworth D. Folkins was born in Cochrane, Ontario on August 12, 1928 and lived in a small northern Ontario community until the 1950s, attending both Primary and High School in the town.
Being a railroad man, his father had a family Canadian National Railway pass to travel yearly anywhere in North Ame