The Railway Art in the Age of Steam
first edition
2008 · New Haven
by Kennedy, Ian and Julian Treuherz
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 First edition. Foreword by David Flemming and Marc F. Wilson. Small oblong folio. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Checklist of the exhibition, timeline, bibliography, index. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large, well-designed, handsome book. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel around the world as it surveys the artistic response to steam locomotion. Features paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper.. (Inventory #: 8020)