Edward Bannister’s painting shows a train cutting through a rural landscape, where a railroad trestle interrupts the flow of the stream below. These familiar signs of progress in the nineteenth-century landscape highlight a concern shared by many of Bannister’s fellow painters, who worried that industrialization would soon destroy their nation’s natural beauty.
- Title
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Train
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1875-1880
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 6 x 8 1⁄4 in. (15.3 x 21.0 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Architecture – vehicle – train
- Architecture – bridge
- Object Number
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1983.95.107
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
