Train

Media - 1983.95.107 - SAAM-1983.95.107_1 - 7374
Copied Edward Mitchell Bannister, Train, ca. 1875-1880, oil on canvas, 6 x 8 1⁄4 in. (15.3 x 21.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky, 1983.95.107
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Artwork Details

Title
Train
Artist
Date
ca. 1875-1880
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
6 x 8 1⁄4 in. (15.3 x 21.0 cm.)
Markings
lower right oil: E. M Bannister paper backing right, left, and top in felt-tipped pen and ink: F. S. + J. S. paper backing upper right in felt-tipped pen and ink: 78-25-1 lower stretcher bar lower right in ballpoint pen and ink: 78-25-1 lower stretcher bar center incised: PAT. OCT. 7.84./8 INCH right stretcher bar center incised: PAT. OCT. 7.84./6 INCH
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Keywords
  • Architecture — bridge
  • Landscape — river
  • Architecture — vehicle — train
Object Number
1983.95.107
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1983.95.107

Artwork Description

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.