In the 1940s, General Motors did a series of ads that compared railroading in the nineteenth century with modern railroading using GM Diesels. Because some, though not all, of the ads used Currier & Ives prints to show the nineteenth … Continue reading
General Motors needed to apply railroad logos to the Diesel locomotives they bought. Sometimes GM artists would enhance those logos, particularly when they were placed on the noses of the locomotives. Basic art work for the logos was often done … Continue reading
Even though General Motors’ customers for Diesel locomotives were railroads and not the general public, the company still frequently advertised the locomotives in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, and National Geographic. It also published a few … Continue reading
In 1935, GM was just getting started in the Diesel business and these two images show locomotives and trains that were first built in that year. The paintings are not signed but may have been done by Leland Knickerbocker or … Continue reading
Among the paintings recently sold by Soulis Auctions are a series of profiles of F3 locomotives, all of them signed by Ben Dedek. All of these locomotives were made in 1947 or 1948 so presumably the paintings were done around … Continue reading
We’ve seen plenty of paintings by Ben Dedek, but here are ten more. Some of these have already been seen in the form of data cards, but the original paintings are higher in resolution and uncropped. Dedek’s name appeared on … Continue reading
We’ve seen several paintings by Harry Bockewitz, but here are five more we haven’t seen. First are a few paintings that apparently were done on speculation. Click any image for a larger view. Click here to download a 5.7-MB PDF … Continue reading
Paintings recently sold by Soulis Auctions reveal that GM proposed several different ideas for painting the E6 used for Illinois Central’s City of Miami, which began operating as an all-coach train in December 1940. In retrospect, I don’t think they … Continue reading
I’ve shown several paintings by GM Art & Color artist Paul A. Meyer. Here are three more. Click image for a larger view. Click here to download a 5.8-MB PDF with all three paintings in high-resolution format. The size of … Continue reading
The past few weeks have presented art by Leland Knickerbocker, Paul Meyer, Ben Dedek, and Harry Bockewitz, plus one data card whose painting was by Rex A. Prunty. Among images of original artworks provided by Greg Palumbo are three other … Continue reading
