Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia

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

Date1956; printed April 1986

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 19 3/8 inches (39.37 × 49.21 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 15/16 inches (40.64 × 50.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.2756

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Printed by / Winston Link / 4-86"; On sheet verso, lower right, stamped in black ink with black pen: "© O. WINSTON LINK1987" / "NOTICE! / THIS PHOTOGRAPH MUST / NOT BE REPRODUCED EITEHR / WHOLE OR IN PART BY ANY / METHOD, PHOTOGRAPHIC OR / ART OR BY LASER OR BY VIDEO / CAMERAS, FOR ANY PURPOSE / WITHOUTWRITTEN PERMIS- / SION FROM / O. WINSTON LINK / 381 PARK AVENUE SOUT / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 / COPYRIGHT NO / NW1103".

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "MV1103 / PCFG 3 1/2 ⧜ 4 / ARCH / 4-86"

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DescriptionImage of a man and woman seated closely in the front seat of a convertible car as they watch a movie at a Drive-In Theater. There are rows of parked cars in front of them and a train travels behind the screen and extends across the frame.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Night Light: a Survey of 20^th Century Night Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 15 - February 12, 1989, The Fine Arts Center/Creekwood, Nashville, TN, February 26 - April 2, 1989, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN, April 23 - June 11, 1989, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, August 6 - September 24, 1989, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA, February 18 - April 1, 1990, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, April 29 - June 10, 1990, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA, July 8 - August 26, 1990, The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN, September 23 - November 4, 1990, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, December 1, 1990 – January 20, 1991, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, February 12 - April 7, 1991, no. 42.

Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 - November 11, 1993, no cat.

Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, April 18 - August 10, 2008, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13, 2008 - January 18, 2009, no. no. 111.

Gallery Label

A locomotive thunders past a drive-in theater, its plume of steam white against the night sky. In the foreground, a couple cozy up in a convertible while they view a jet plane onscreen. This scene pays homage to the steam engine at the moment automobiles dominated American transportation.

O. Winston Link began photographing the last days of the Northern and Western Railway line in the mid-1950s. He photographed at night to achieve the most dramatic effects, using an elaborate system of synchronized flashes. This photograph required 43 powerful flashbulbs. Link later affixed a separate photograph of the airplane onto the drive-in screen using the technique known as photomontage.

Provenance

Purchased from 19th and 20th Century Photographs, Christie's, New York, NY, May 4, 1987, lot 315, by Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, 1987;
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1987;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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