"Y" Class Locomotive Shoving a Northbound Time Freight by Fringer's Mill at Lithia, Lithia, Virginia
Artist
O. Winston Link
(American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1956
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 9/16 × 19 1/2 in. (39.5 × 49.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 1/8 × 28 1/8 in. (63.8 × 71.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 1/8 × 28 1/8 in. (63.8 × 71.4 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated by the artist in pencil on the verso of the print. Artist's Studio stamp on the verso of the print.
Credit LineGift of Susan and David Goode
Object number2022.31.12
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print.Label TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) "Y" CLASS LOCOMOTIVE SHOVING A NORTHBOUND TIME FREIGHT BY FRINGER'S MILL AT LITHIA Lithia, Virginia, 1956 L2004.11.47 Bobby Goggin, a small boy from a nearby farmhouse, tried unsuccessfully to get out of the way as Link shot this scene of a Y-Class locomotive shoving a northbound time freight by Fringer's Mill at Lithia, then a settlement of 101 souls in Botetourt County. Edited By: DS Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 07/25/2005ProvenanceRobert Mann Gallery to Susan and David Goode to CMA.Exhibition History"Norfolk and Western Railway Photographs by O. Winston Link," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., July 1 - December 31, 2005. Published ReferencesGhost Trains: Railroad Photographs of the 1950s (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1983). This booklet accompanied the exhibition of Link's works at the Chysler. It includes some of Link's recordings on an 8" 33 RPM and data on all the photos. Night Tick by O. Winston Link: Photographs of the Norfolk and Western Railway, 1955-60 (London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1983) Tim Hansley and O. Winston Link, Stream, Steel, and Stars: America's Last Steam Railroad (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987) Anthony Korner, "The Night Owl," Artforum 27, no. 27, no. 9 (May 1989): 141-146 O. Winston Link and Thomas H. Garver, The Last Steam Railroad in America, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995)
