Lloyd W. Schnell
American
Railroad Switching Yards, 1975

The straight lines and defined spaces of Schnell's train cars and railroad yard are in sharp contrast to the visually descriptive nineteenth-century images of railroads and the railroad depot interiors that other twentieth-century artists presented as sacred spaces. The industrial and commercial nature of the railroad is made clear in Schnell's construction of this man-made environment.

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