The Cavalier Passes the Colonna Shipyards, Norfolk, Virginia
Artist
O. Winston Link
(American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1955
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 9/16 × 19 3/8 in. (39.5 × 49.2 cm)
Overall, Paper: 16 × 19 13/16 in. (40.6 × 50.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Paper: 16 × 19 13/16 in. (40.6 × 50.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 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 number2022.31.34
On View
Not on viewLabel TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) THE CAVALIER PASSES THE COLONNA SHIPYARDS Norfolk, Virginia, 1955 L2004.11.69 This is the black and white version of an image that is better known in color. The ancient tug in the Colonna Shipyards, in for a refit appealed to Winston Link as a suitable foreground for the streamlined beauty of a Class J locomotive pulling the Cavalier at the beginning of its westward trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. This is one of only a handful of photos of the N&W that Link made east of Blue Ridge Grade which is just east of Roanoke, Virginia. Link made several photos in the Norfolk station---now demolished and replaced with Harbor Park Baseball Stadium---and several in this location along the Elizabeth River, but much of the scenery east of Blue Ridge was of less interest to him than Roanoke and the mountains in Western Virginia. 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)Photographs 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), 88.
