Somewhere under the Rainbow


B and R Village Mobile Home Park and Burlington Northern CoalTrain. June 1984, from the series
Enjoy this selection from the Smithsonian American Art Museum photography collection.

Environmental landscape photographer David T. Hanson depicts the dismal surroundings of a small Montana mining town in this June 1984 photograph.

You can view more landscape photography in the virtual exhibition Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography. This and other photography shows make up the Smithsonian American Art Museum's photography website Helios.

Pictured: David T. Hanson, born 1948, B and R Village Mobile Home Park and Burlington Northern Coal Train. June 1984, from the series "Colstrip, Montana 1982–1985", 1984, Ektacolor print on paper, 11 x 14 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation.