Train-time
Datec. 1933-1934
Artist
Michael J. Gallagher
American printmaker, 1898–1965
MediumWoodcut
Dimensionscomposition: 5 × 6 15/16 in. (12.7 × 17.6 cm)
sheet: 7 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (18.7 × 22.1 cm)
sheet: 7 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (18.7 × 22.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 3rd Regional District of the P.W.A.P., 1934
Object number1934-37
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextScranton-born artist Michael Gallagher trained at the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art following his medical discharge from the Army during the First World War. As technical director of the printmaing branch of Philadelphia's Federal Art Project, Gallagher worked with Dox Thrash and Herbert Mesibov to develop the gritty and evocative carborundum process. Gallagher's subjects are more usually associated with the dignity and hardscrabble lives of the coal miners he grew up around than Train Time's bucolic winter scene.
