Art in the Age of Steam

A 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 top attractions during Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture year.

About 100 paintings, photographs, prints and drawings - transported from some of the world’s greatest art collections - come together in a dazzling display covering the years 1830 to 1960.

Among the masterpieces assembled for the exhibition are: The Railway by Edouard Manet (National Gallery of Art, Washington), La Crau from Montmajour, with train (British Museum, London) by Van Gogh, Lordship Lane Station by Camille Pissarro (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), four paintings by Claude Monet - including Gare Saint-Lazare (National Gallery, London) - and The Third-class Carriage by Honoré Daumier (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). Later works include paintings such as Railroad Sunset by Edward Hopper (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) and The Anxious Journey by Giorgio de Chirico (Museum of Modern Art, New York), along with photographs by Bill Brandt, Alfred Stieglitz and O. Winston Link.

Image credit: 'The Railway (The Gare Saint-Lazare)', 1873, by Edouard Manet. © The Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Venue

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Dates

Art in the Age of Steam 18 Apr 2008 - 10 Aug 2008

* Open daily, 10am-5pm. Closed from 2pm on 24 December and all day on 25 and 26 December and 1 January.

Road Directions

Walker Art Gallery is in Liverpool city centre, close to the entrance to the Queensway Tunnel and Lime Street Station.

 Facilities

Provider Preferences

• In town/city centre

Parking & Transport

• On site parking