Struan Gray
6-Aug-2008, 13:23
I was in Liverpool last week, and was able to skive off work enough for a couple of visits to the Walker Art Gallery. Running until Sunday is an exhibition called 'Art in the Age of Steam', which looks at the railways effects on art, both directly as something to be depicted, and through their wider effect on travel, imagination and the zeitgeist.
As if the paintings were not enough, the curators have included a smattering of excellent photograpy, mostly with vintage prints. Sullivan, Gardner, Watkins, Coburn, Stieglitz, Sheeler, Bing, Link (of course), Brandt, Kertesz and a number of other British and Americans I had not heard of before, especially early commercial and documentary ones. The early albumen prints were a treat.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/steam/
Well worth a trip if you're in the area. It's coming to Kansas City in September. The catalogue is lavishly produced if you can't make the show, but you'll miss seeing the reality of the big albumen prints which for me were the highlight of the show.
As if the paintings were not enough, the curators have included a smattering of excellent photograpy, mostly with vintage prints. Sullivan, Gardner, Watkins, Coburn, Stieglitz, Sheeler, Bing, Link (of course), Brandt, Kertesz and a number of other British and Americans I had not heard of before, especially early commercial and documentary ones. The early albumen prints were a treat.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/steam/
Well worth a trip if you're in the area. It's coming to Kansas City in September. The catalogue is lavishly produced if you can't make the show, but you'll miss seeing the reality of the big albumen prints which for me were the highlight of the show.