Exhibition Checklist: Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Curator: Students from the Graduate Program in Museum Studies
Venue: SUArt Galleries
Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2011- January 22, 2012
Berenice Abbott
American 1898-1991
Multiple Exposure Showing the Path of a Steel Ball Ejected Vertically from a Moving Object,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, c1958-61
gelatin silver print
14 x 19 7/8 inches
Gift of Mr. Wolf Kahn and Ms. Emily Mason
1992.227
[Small town railroad crossing near Baltimore, Maryland], 1954
gelatin silver print
7 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Gift of Albert Finney
1981.2788
Thomas Hart Benton
American 1889-1975
Edge of Town, 1938
lithograph on wove paper
8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches
Collection purchase
1968.028
Alan Dunn
American 1900-1974
"My, you certainly get a lot for $175,000,000!," 1940
published in The New Yorker, June 15, 1940, page 19
crayon on wove paper
16 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
1979.751
[Train at dockside], 1940
published in The New Yorker, October 19, 1940, page 24
crayon on wove paper
10 1/4 x 12 5/8 inches
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
1979.767
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[Train depot], 1936
published in The New Yorker, July 4, 1936, page 5
crayon on wove paper
10 x 14 inches
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
1979.580
"Well, Chief, you've guessed so much, you might as well know everything," 1936
published in The New Yorker, February 1, 1936, page 22
crayon on wove paper
13 x 16 inches
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
1979.564
Fritz Eichenberg
American, b. Germany 1901-1990
Railway Vendors-Mexico, 1936
wood engraving on laid paper
7 3/4 x 10 inches
Collection purchase
1996.0012
Joseph Farris
American b. 1924
This Is Ridiculous!, 1963
ink on wove paper
7 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches
Gift to the collection
1989.065
Ewing Galloway Agency
American 1910-1950
A commuter train and its occupants leaving to go to their daily jobs in Chicago, Illinois, c1920s
gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches
Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
Hobo Walking the Railroad Track, c1920-30s
gelatin silver print
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24 x 20 inches
Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
Two Hobos on Top of a Caboose, c1920-30s
gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches
Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
untitled [image of train], c1920-30s
gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches
Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
untitled [workers prepping/working on train], c1920-30s
gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches
Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
Richard C. Harden
American, b. 1956
Olsztyn West, 1984
lithograph on wove paper
16 1/4 x 26 7/8 inches
Collection purchase
1992.733
Kenneth L. Hojnacki
Steam Railroads of Central New York, 1973
Marcellus, NY: Central New York Chapter, National Railway
Historical Society, Inc., c1973
11 x 17 inches
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
HE2771.N7H64 1973 New York
Winslow Homer
American 1836-1910
Danger Ahead, 1870
published in Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, April 30, 1870, p. 477
wood engraving on wove paper
6 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches
Collection purchase
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1991.070
Edward Hopper
American 1882-1967
The Railroad, 1922
etching on wove paper
8 x 9 3/4 inches
Collection purchase
1998.082
Patrick Hughes
English, b. 1939
Rainbows on a Train, 1980
seven color screenprint on wove paper
19 1/8 x 31 inches
Gift of Hamilton Richardson
1981.0073
Dong Kingman
American 1911-2000
[Town scene with train], 1957
watercolor on wove paper
15 x 22 3/4 inches
Gift of the artist
1966.395
Walt Kuhn
American 1877-1949
[Train with cow], n.d.
watercolor on wove paper
5 1/2 x 8 inches
Gift of Linda and Stephen L. Singer
1995.0364
O. Winston Link
American 1914-2001
Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, VA, 1956
silver gelatin print
24 x 20 inches
Gift of Roy Zider
2006.0049
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Hester Fringer’s Living Room on the Tracks, Lithia, VA, 1956
silver gelatin print
20 x 24 inches
Gift of Roy Zider
2006.0048
Hotshot Eastbound, Laeger, WV, 1956
silver gelatin print
20 x 24 inches
Gift of Roy Zider
2006.0050
The Popes watch the last steam powered passenger train, Max Meadows,
silver gelatin print
24 x 20 inches
Gift of Roy Zider
2006.0051
1957
S1A Switcher and Crew, Shaffers Crossing, VA, 1958
silver gelatin print
15 x 51 inches
Gift of Roy Zider
2006.0052
Reginald Marsh
American 1898-1954
Erie R.R. Locomotives Watering, 1934
etching on wove paper
9 x 12 inches
Collection purchase
1964.081
Thomas Moran
American 1837-1926
[River Gorge with train entering tunnel], n.d.
oil on wove paper
13 x 10 1/2 inches
Gift of the American Book Company
1982.049
Edward Penfield
American 1866-1925
[Five figures riding on a train, reading Harper's Magazine- February 1898], 1898
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lithograph on wove paper
19 x 14 inches
Gift of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1986.013
Mary Petty
American 1899-1976
[Train and windswept trees in rain], c1933
unpublished illustration for Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
crayon ink on wove paper
5 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
1979.2364
Hugh Thompson
American
Railroads of the Streets of Syracuse, 1970
Marcellus, NY: Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, c1970
illustrated book
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
HE1618.S9 1970
The Greatest Railroad Terminal in the World: Grand Central Terminal of the New York Central Lines, c1911
New York City: New York Central Lines, [1911?]
illustrated book
9 1/2 x 13 inches
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
TF302.N7 T5 1911
Anthony Toney
American 1913- 2004
Building RR, Relationship to Pony Express - covered wagon, c1938
gouache and pencil on illustration board
6 13/16 x 16 5/16 inches
Gift of the artist
1965.0669
Renzo Vespignani
Italian 1924- 2001
Train Being Moved, 1962
color lithograph on wove paper
13 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches
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Collection purchase
1962.106
Wagner Palace Car Company, c1892
New York: W.S. Webb, c1892
illustrated book
71/2 x 20 inches
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center
TF455.W34 1892
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