Today’s Wall Street Journal features an enthusiastic review of the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s exhibit “Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America, and the Railway, 1830-1960,” in which the author praises the “outstanding” essays collected in the accompanying catalog published by the Yale University Press. With more than 250 illustrations, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam chronicles the life- and landscape-altering effects of the railroad and its influence on the artistic community as artists adapted their idyllic pastoral scenes to make way for the meandering steel tracks of the Industrial Age.

The Journal‘s review praises the catalog as a substantial companion to an exhibit that left the author “wanting more.” He also notes that essays from Professors Matthew Beaumont of University College London and Michael Freeman of Oxford University provide additional perspective on this powerful engine of change. For more information on the exhibit and to see samples of the collected works, click here.