All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955
On view through January 26, 2025
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, Tennessee
dixon.org
“All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955” examines the often-symbiotic relationship between painters in the United States and the passenger and freight trains that populated cities, towns, and countrysides across the nation. As seen through the eyes of some of our country’s most consequential artists, the exhibition traces the evolution of trains from the “devillish iron horse” of the mid-nineteenth century to an industrial powerhouse at the turn of the century, and ultimately by the mid-twentieth century, to a pageant of expressive metaphor and even quaint nostalgia. In following the railroad’s technological advances, the exhibition also tracks the progression of American painting, from the sublime canvases of the Hudson River School to hard-edged abstraction.
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[Image: Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), “Terminal Yards,” 1912-1913. Oil on canvas/ Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan/ Gift of Mrs. Arthur Jerome Eddy, 1931.4.]
