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In 1955, General Motors had 20 cover ads in Railway Age, but only three are clearly attributable to Hill. Ten were done by an artist named Ralph Brillhart and one was by an artist named Herb Mott. The Christmas cover … Continue reading
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As a further rejection of Hill’s painting style, 1954 saw General Motors ads retreat to the area below the Railway Age masthead. The paintings that fit into this area were landscape style (wider than tall) and occupied less than half … Continue reading
Seeing his paintings made into a series of at least 30 posters must have been a heady experience for Bern Hill. Yet his output experienced a major decline in 1953, with just seven covers on Railway Age, or eight if … Continue reading
If Bern Hill did 46 paintings for General Motors before the end of 1952, why did GM only print posters for 31 of them? Greg Palumbo suggests that “the posters were limited to customers who were either going to or … Continue reading
I’ve shown these posters before, but I’m including them here because some of them are in higher resolutions than the ones I’ve shown before and the others are for the sake of having a complete set available on line in … Continue reading
Here are the rest of the Bern Hill posters that I haven’t shown in a previous post. This image is from the Palumbo collection. Click image to download a 6.2-MB PDF of this poster. Greg Palumbo’s image of this poster … Continue reading
All of the poster images in yesterday’s post were from Greg Palumbo’s collection, but none of today’s are. Instead, I’ve used the highest-resolution images I could find for each poster. I’ve placed them all in consistently-sized PDFs, but in most … Continue reading
Counting the Southern Railway cover from February 11, 1950 and the 1952 Christmas cover, Bern Hill did 46 paintings that appeared on Railway Age magazine covers in 1950, 1951, and 1952. Near the end of this period, General Motors printed … Continue reading
Hill did six more paintings in 1952 including the Christmas cover. Another worm’s-eye view painting shows an attractive Monon Diesel locomotive overshadowed by the friction bearing of a freight car. Unless otherwise noted all images today are from Greg Palumbo’s … Continue reading
Hill’s mid-year paintings in 1952 ranged from mundane to highly creative. The Kansas City Southern/New Orleans image is perhaps most creative as it gives a definite feel of historic New Orleans even if it isn’t geographically accurate. A painting of … Continue reading