The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 30, 2026

Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia

1956

O. Winston Link

(American, 1914–2001)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Gift of Catherine Edelman 2024.162
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

O. Winston Link was a successful New York commercial photographer who became obsessed with documenting the final days of the steam locomotive.

Description

Link photographed the Norfolk & Western Railway as it passed through small towns in western Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Maryland. Link often contrasted the steam locomotives, which were 19th-century inventions, and historical, rural icons such as the swimming hole, with modern forms of transportation such as the automobile. Those images reveal how changes in technology were impacting small-town American life in the 1950s.
  • ?–?
    O. Winston Link [1914–2001] (the artist), to Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
    ?–2024
    Catherine Edelman, Chicago, IL, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 9, 2024–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2024.162