The Railway In Art
Here's an exhibition first shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool this summer. It's now moved to the USA without visiting London! Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960 opened today at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and continues until 18 January 2009 (title link). This is the biggest exhibition of railway art ever assembled, featuring more than 100 paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from 64 museums and private collections. When shown at the Walker Gallery it drew 113,000 visitors. Egg's The Travelling Companions (1862) is one of the paintings on display. This exhibition is a must for art lovers and for steam buffs.
posted by Unknown @ 13.9.08
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A terrible copy of this painting - I've seen the original and the dresses are actually a sort of dark steel-blue.
Hi. An interesting comment. I've never seen the original, but the cover of Victorian Painting by Graham Reynolds features this painting and the colour looks very similar to the graphic I posted. (The original graphic was slightly overexposed, so I lowered the gamma setting to make it a little darker.) All the graphics I've seen make the dresses look fawn in colour, but silks and satins can change their appearance according to how light falls on them. I'd be fascinated to see the original. Could Egg have reproduced this shifting of colours?
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