Railroad Patronage of American Artists
Other Resource Library articles and essays regarding railroad-related art:
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Books:
The Art of Railroading, by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Publisher: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, 19 pages.
Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950, by Michael E. Zega and John E. Gruber. Publisher: Indiana University
Press (October 2002). 
From Libraey
Journal: "...Five chronologically arranged chapters interweave
information about the artists and how the characteristics of their commissioned
designs serve the advertising purposes of the railroad lines they worked
for. A large number of artists, both well known (N.C. Wyeth, John Held Jr.)
and not so well known (Maurice Logan, Leslie Ragan), are included in the
discussion, with reproductions of their designs." (right: front
cover of Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950,
by Michael E. Zega and John E. Gruber)
Visions & Visionaries: The Art & Artists of the Santa Fe Railway, by Sandra D'Emilio and Suzan Campbell. Publisher: Peregrine Smith Books, (1991), 147 pages
Magazine article:
"Santa Fe: The Chief Way," by Robert Strein, John Vaughan and C. Fenton Richards, Jr. New Mexico Magazine, 2001
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