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Best Antique Art Deco Lithograph Print New York Central Lines Mohawk Valley by the Artist Walter L Greene. Westward Bound in the Mohawk Velley The Twentieth Century Limited New York Central Lines. The original oak frame measures 20 3/8″ x 24 3/8″ that fits artwork 18″ x 22″. The image depicts NY Central Railroad locomotive 5200 with Pullman cars. The lithograph is in a classic blue green tone similar to Maxfield Parrish. Excellent condition in the original oak frame and glass – see my 12 detailed photos. Everything is genuine old original in exceptional condition. Not a later reproduction.
Walter L. Greene
[American Painter and Illustrator, 1870-1956]
Walter L. Greene was active/lived in New York. Walter Greene is known for illustrator-industrial, railroad.
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.
The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad (NYC) from 1902 to 1967. The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal (GCT) in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, along the railroad’s “Water Level Route”.
NYC inaugurated the 20th Century Limited as competition to the Pennsylvania Railroad, aimed at upper-class and business travelers. It made few station stops along the way and used track pans to take water at speed. In 1938, streamlined train sets designed by Henry Dreyfuss were added to the route.
The 20th Century Limited was advertised as “The Most Famous Train in the World”. It was described in The New York Times as having been “known to railroad buffs for 65 years as the world’s greatest train”, and its style was described as “spectacularly understated”. The phrase “red carpet treatment” is derived by how passengers walked to the train on a specially designed crimson carpet.
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