Full steam ahead at gallery.Byline: Philip Key Philip Key may refer to:
TELEVISION traveller Michael Palin will open the Walker Art Gallery's major exhibition on steam train art next month. The ex-Monty Python star and one-time train-spotter will open the exhibition Art in the Age of Steam at the gallery at a private gathering on April 17. The show is considered to be one of the top attractions during Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture. The exhibition, running from April 18 to August 10, has attracted paintings from some of the great art collections. Works have been loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , British Museum, Courtauld Institute, National Gallery of Canada, Whitney Museum, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, among others. Artists represented include Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Edward Hopper, Daumier and William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (January 19, 1819 - November 9, 1909), was an English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives, who was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852. . Some of the most treasured works to be shown will be The Travelling Companions by Augustus Egg showing two crinolineclad girls in a luxurious railway compartment, Manet's The Railway and William Powell Frith's The Railway Station capturing the bustle of Paddington Station. |
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