Locomotive Shops
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etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 32.86 × 43.02 cm (12 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.) sheet: 38.74 × 49.37 cm (15 1/4 × 19 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1458
Art Historical Context
**Locomotive Shops** a striking 1947 etching and aquint by American printmaker Reynold Weidenaar, the gritty dynamism of post-World War II industry. Measuring nearly 13 by 17 inches on the plate, this black-ink work on wove paper depicts the vast interiors of locomotive repair shops, a nod to America's enduring reliance on railroads for economic recovery and expansion in the late 1940s. Weidenaar, renowned for his precise renderings of urban and industrial scenes, drew from his training at the Pratt Institute to evoke the mechanical scale and human labor that powered the nation. The technique...