Santa Fe 1977 Calendar

In 1977, Santa Fe was out of the passenger business but still doing car maintenance work for Amtrak. It sometimes adding pieces of southwest Indian art to passenger car decor, much to Amtrak’s annoyance as the company wanted all of its cars to be as generic as possible so they could go anywhere within the system.

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Anyway, Santa Fe also continued to publish annual calendars featuring one of the pieces of artwork that it had purchased decades before in an effort to both promote the Taos art colony as well as tourism to the Southwest. The painting in this calendar is by E. Martin Hemmings (1886-1956), who also did the painting on Santa Fe’s 1974 calendar. Hemmings was born in New Jersey, educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, and joined the Taos art colony in about 1917.


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