Buck Stewart Calling Trains at the Roanoke Station, Roanoke, Virginia
Artist
O. Winston Link
(American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1956
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 9/16 × 19 3/8 in. (39.5 × 49.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 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 number2022.31.16
On View
Not on viewLabel TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) BUCK STEWART CALLING TRAINS AT THE ROANOKE STATION Roanoke, Virginia, 1956 L2004.11.51 Harry T. "Buck" Stewart was finishing a long career with the N&W when Winston Link photographed him in August 1956. Stewart called the trains from a position on the west side of the passenger concourse, demolished in 1992, which bridged over three tracks. The windows to the right looked down the tracks towards the west. The huge south windows, seen in the background, were disassembled and reinstalled in the end of the present station lobby when the concourse was removed. Fifty years ago travel was an occasion, and people dressed up for their journeys, as can be seen in the careful attire of the two women in the background and the man wearing a coat, tie and Panama hat-in August. 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)
