When Trains Were Travelling Art Galleries Pt 8/10 - The Artists - Painters' Portraits

Episode 8 of the Travelling Art Gallery documentary series of 10.
The Painters' Portrait - The Artists - A look at the leading artists commissioned by the railway companies - many of whom were members of the Royal Instute of Painters in Watercolours, The Royal Watercolour Society, The Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.

The Series is 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