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Object Details
- Artist
- Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901
- Luce Center Label
- 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
- 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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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Architecture\bridge
- Landscape\river
- Architecture\vehicle\train
- Record ID
- saam_1983.95.107
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d696417d-c045-40dd-9fb6-40b2a63391ca
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