New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.

Abingdon Branch Train No. 202 Passing Keller's Field, Near Watauga, Virginia

Artist O. Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)

CultureAmerican

Date1955

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (39.4 × 49.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 1/16 × 28 1/16 in. (63.7 × 71.3 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 number2023.26.8

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print.

Label TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) ABINGDON BRANCH TRAIN NO. 202 PASSING KELLER'S FIELD Near Watauga, Virginia, 1955 L2004.11.78 In October 1955, Winston Link made his first visit to the Abingdon Branch in the fall. He was deeply impressed with how the things he saw seemed to have changed over the years. Here was old fashioned farming, with the corn stacked in shocks to dry. And there, between shocks of corn came an equally old fashioned locomotive, rolling through this landscape a few miles south of Abingdon, Virginia, before passing on, leaving, as Link liked to say, "just a little whiff of coal smoke." Edited By: DS Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 07/25/2005Exhibition 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 ReferencesPhotographs by O. Winston Link, text by Thomas H. Garver, _The Last Steam Railroad In America: From Tidewater To Whitetop_ (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995), 71.