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Edward Mitchell Bannister, Train
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Edward Mitchell Bannister

Train

ca. 1875-1880

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
15.3 × 21 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-138020

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.

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky

Registry history

  • ca. 1875-1880 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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