Art in the Age of Steam
18 April 2008 - 10 August 2008
Free admission
This major exhibition captures the excitement of the steam train in art
from the earliest days, through the boom years of Victorian railways to
the end of the line in the 1960s.
Art in the Age of Steam is the most wide-ranging exhibition yet held to
look at how artists responded to the extraordinary impact that steam
trains had on landscape and society. It is one of the major highlights
of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year.
Around 100 paintings, photographs, prints and drawings from some of the
world's greatest art collections come together in a dazzling display
including:
- 'The Railway' by Edouard Manet (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
'La Crau from Montmajour, with train' by Van Gogh (British Museum, London)
'Lordship Lane Station' by Camille Pissarro (Courtauld Institute of Art,
London)
four paintings by Claude Monet - including 'Gare Saint-Lazare' (National
Gallery, London)
' Railroad Train' by Edward Hopper (Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.)
' The Anxious Journey' by Giorgio de Chirico (Museum of Modern Art, New
York)
photographs by Bill Brandt, Alfred Stieglitz and O Winston Link.
ever before and notions of time and space were forever changed. Nothing
has been done on this scale before - visitors are transported on an
exhilarating journey in the company of some of the world's great
artists." Julian Treuherz, Co-Curator and former Keeper of Galleries at
the Walker.
