In his 1890 Landscape at Auvers after the rain, a locomotive trails steam across a mosaic of fields, as a horse and cart trudge in the opposite direction. For one art movement in particular — Italy’s ...

One of the most famous train journeys in art was Vincent van Gogh’s trip from Paris to Arles in February 1888 on the PLM, or Paris-Lyon-Mediterranée Express. Although steam locomotion had been ...