The Machine Age
The Machine Age presents railways in both painting and photography as a new kind of industrial landscape, where pollution suggests prosperity as well as environmental threats. During the years between the First and the Second World Wars, artists gloried in the steam locomotive as a symbol of speed and power at the very moment when it was being challenged by road and air transport. The exhibition concludes with works that celebrate the end of the steam age in a spirit of valedictory nostalgia.
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Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946 |
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George Luks, 1867-1933 |
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Ivo Pannaggi, 1901-1981 |
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Pierre Fix-Masseau, 1905-1994 |
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Charles Sheeler, 1883-1965 |
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Terence Cuneo, 1907-1996 |
