Bob Dylan|The Beaten Path 2026

For its anniversary the series stays on familiar ground rather than taking a new direction: neon-lit buildings, landscapes, roads and railway tracks, several of them traceable to real places.

'Airline Diner' is based on the Jackson Hole Diner in New York, not far from LaGuardia Airport. 'Liquor Store' shows Encino Park Liquor in Los Angeles. Dylan's roadside subjects have been described as places on the edge of town or on run-down corners, and both prints fit that description. 'History Will Absolve Me' looks out along a vast road into a dramatic landscape, a composition Dylan has returned to several times with different colours and skies.

The railway prints

'Night Train' and 'Switching Station' carry the railway imagery Dylan has painted since 'Train Tracks'. In 'Night Train' the viewer stands front and centre between the rails while a train comes on out of the distance. The image is tied to his hometown of Hibbing, where freight and iron ore cars often kept him waiting at crossings. He has also recalled falling asleep in New York in the early 1960s to "the night train rumbling and grumbling through Jersey, the iron horse with steam for blood." In 'Switching Station' a setting sun throws an orange glow over the steel as the tracks reach towards the viewer.

Before and after

The series' previous giclée chapter, 'The Beaten Path 2024', turned towards residential streets and the people in them. Since then two releases have gone back to earlier images. In October 2025 Dylan issued 'Train Tracks' in four colourways for the 50th anniversary of 'Blood on the Tracks', and in February 2026 'The Beaten Path: The Silkscreen Collection' added 'Joshua Tree, Sunrise Triptych II', a three-panel silkscreen of Joshua Tree National Park. The 2026 giclées take both threads further: 'Joshua Tree, Sunrise' brings the desert subject back as a single print, and two of the six are railway scenes.