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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Train

Train, Edward Mitchell Bannister, ca. 1875-1880

Edward Mitchell Bannister, portrait

Edward Mitchell BannisterAmerican, 1828–1901

Train

ca. 1875-1880 · Painting · 15.3 × 21 cm

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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About the painting

Edward Bannister’s painting shows a train cutting through a rural landscape, where a railroad trestle interrupts the flow of the stream below. These familiar signs of progress in the nineteenth-century landscape highlight a concern shared by many of Bannister’s fellow painters, who worried that industrialization would soon destroy their nation’s natural beauty.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Particulars

ca. 1875-1880

18281901

Accession number: 1983.95.107

What it shows

Bridges Trains Landscape Architecture Rivers Vehicles

Sources

Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 4 days ago
Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0

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Train — Edward Mitchell Bannister · ART WIKI