When Trains Were Travelling Art Galleries Pt 1/10 Railway Carriage Prints & Posters (Nick Crane)

Episode 1 of the Travelling Art Gallery documentary series of 10. An overview of the days when railway carriage compartments showed framed advertisements, notices, artwork, prints, maps and photographs. Presented by Nick Crane, from the successful long-running BBC TV Coast series and Greg Norden, art collector, railway historian (and relative of Charlie Chaplin). They take us on a fascinating visual journey around Britain, when trains became travelling art galleries and leading watercolour artists of the day produced wonderful landscapes for displaying in railway carriages. During the mid-20th century, fine art became readily accessible to the majority of the general public - perhaps for the first time ever. The railway companies used artwork from over 60 leading watercolour and poster artists of the era, including Rowland Hilder, Frank Mason, Norman Wilkinson, Leonard Squirrell, James McIntosh Patrick, Terence Cuneo, Claude Buckle, Jack Merriott, Frank Wootton, Henry Rushbury, Frank Sherwin, Stanley Badmin and Kenneth Steel to produce over 500 landscape paintings of Britain. For more information about the artwork and prints please visit http://www.travellingartgallery.com Video production by Upbeat Image Ltd - http://upbeatimage.co.uk