Edward Mitchell BannisterVerenigde Staten, 1828–1901Mag men het zien?
Washington D.C., Verenigde Staten
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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