Painters were attracted to New Mexico by the purity of the colors: red rocks, blue skies, green trees. That shows here in this painting, along with the red of chilis hanging out to dry. The painting for this calendar — … Continue reading
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Santa Fe continued to issue calendars featuring its western art for more than two decades after Amtrak took over passenger service. This one features a painting of a Navajo family, two of whom break the “fourth wall” by looking directly … Continue reading
Santa Fe calendars date back to 1899. Although the early calendars had a variety of illustrations, starting in 1916 the calendars almost all used a painting from Santa Fe’s art collection. Most of the calendars illustrations are shown on two … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen menus with E.I. Couse‘s paintings of a Taos Indian making arrows, holding a Kachina doll, and weaving a blanket. This one shows an Indian making turquoise beads. Furthermore, when you buy propecia online, no prescription will be … Continue reading
This menu for the San Francisco Chief features a painting of the Pueblo market at Oraibi, Arizona. The painter, John Hauser, worked a generation earlier than most of the painters represented on Santa Fe menus and calendars: born in Ohio … Continue reading
This cover painting is unusual for Santa Fe menus in depicting a scene in Chicago instead of Arizona or New Mexico. The painting is by Frederic Mizen, who did many paintings for Santa Fe including Albuquerque station and Taos Pueblo. … Continue reading
This cover painting depicts old Santa Fe, the railroad’s namesake city. While Santa Fe has done more than most cities to create a unified architectural style and atmosphere, street scenes today are dominated by cars and tourists, not horses and … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before on the cover of what was probably a lunch menu from the Texas Chief. This one is clearly a dinner menu for the Super Chief, and includes both a wider variety and slightly higher-class items, … Continue reading
We’ve seen bright and colorful dude ranch booklets from Burlington, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Union Pacific. In 1940, Santa Fe made the curious choice of issuing a booklet entirely printed in somber shades of brown with black text. Though … Continue reading
Now that I am finished with the somewhat distasteful task of posting what Bronze Age (Amtrak & VIA) memorabilia I have in my collection, I can get back to what is left of my Silver and Golden Age collection. Today, … Continue reading