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ITEM: This is a c. 1930s vintage and original framed advertising art print for General Electric and the Great Northern Railroad. Artwork is by American artist and illustrator Walter L. Greene and is printed on a beautiful, textured paper stock. An electric train can be seen running through a rocky mountain passage with blue skies and green, towering trees. A picturesque piece of Americana! Printed text in the bottom margin reads Electric Locomotive Hauling The Oriental Limited / Great Northern Railroad. The General Electric logo is also printed in the bottom margin. Print is housed behind glass in a vintage, gold painted wood frame.
Measures a framed 14.5″ x 17.5″ with an image sight size of 10.5″ x 13.75″
CONDITION: This vintage print is in fine condition with some light tears/creases in the top right corner and top margin of the image. Frame is in fine condition and displays nominal storage/handling wear. With a hanging wire attached to the back, this piece is ready to display. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Of this artist, John Gruber of Madison, Wisconsin writes: “When I was editor of ‘Vintage Rails’ magazine, I wrote a biographical sketch of Walter Greene. This appeared in No. 1, Fall 1995, pages 58-59, “The Dramatic Industrial Art of Walter Greene.” The following information is taken from that article:
Greene, from Schenectady, New York, managed the art department of General Electric for 37 years beginning 1903, but in the 1920s broadened his efforts by producing paintings for both GE and the New York Central Railroad. He did nearly all the calendar paintings for GE’s annual calendar, which in 1929, circulated 100,000 copies. In 1921, the New York Central Railroad started its calendar project, which Greene took over in 1925.
From 1925 to 1927, Greene’s painting of a New York Central Class T electric locomotive appeared on the cover of the “American Flyer” toy-train catalog, and a painting done in 1928 was used by the U.S. Navy on its recruiting poster.
Greene attended the Massachusetts State Normal School’s Academy of Art in Boston and had his first job with the Forbes Lithographing Company as a commercial artist. He then studied in France and Italy for two years before taking the job with General Electric.
Despite his accomplishments as an illustrator, he has received little attention from the world of fine arts.
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