Cultural tour de force

Jun 9 2008 by Peter Elson, Liverpool Daily Post

Cultural tour de force

ART in the Age of Steam is the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition for Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture.

This is the most wide-ranging exhibition yet held showing how artists responded to the impact of steam trains on landscape and society.

Around 100 paintings, photographs, prints and drawings from some of the world’s greatest art collections include works by Manet, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Hopper, Brandt and Stieglitz.

“Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before, and notions of time and space were forever changed.

“Nothing has been done on this scale before,” says Julian Treuherz, co-curator and former NML keeper of galleries.

The exhibition, at the Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool, is a joint venture with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA. It runs until August 10, admission free.