Train

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Object Details

Artist

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

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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.

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky

Date

ca. 1875-1880

Object number

1983.95.107

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Painting

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

6 x 8 1/4 in. (15.3 x 21.0 cm.)

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Department

Painting and Sculpture

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Architecture\bridge

Landscape\river

Architecture\vehicle\train

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d696417d-c045-40dd-9fb6-40b2a63391ca

Record ID

saam_1983.95.107