After his first trip to Montana in January of 1920, Winold Reiss was able to return to Glacier Park many times in a long-lasting collaboration with the Great Northern Railway. His works illustrated the Railway's "See America First" campaign that promoted travel to the "Crown of the Continent" on calendars, menus, playing cards, and souvenirs for thirty years, thus reaching a wide audience...
Winold Reiss's works are highly regarded today and his
popularity continues, in part because of the railroad calendars and souvenirs
produced from his portraits. However, his work -- like that of other great
artists and illustrators such as Norman Rockwell -- survives and flourishes not
just as a result of the Great Northern's printed matter but b
ecause
he captured a very recognizable and uniquely American theme.
Winold Reiss also expressed the great feeling for color and design that his native friends favored. He rendered his subjects in a way that conveyed honor, beauty, and dignity upon them, free of racial prejudice. His own unique style can be viewed as a synthesis of bold, colorful graphic design, skillful drawing, and fine art. It is this balance in his art that makes his portraits so remarkably fresh and aesthetically pleasing today." - Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc., an Arizona nonprofit corporation.
All prints are 9" by 12" in excellent condition and ready to be framed. Image size is 7.5" by 10". They will be shipped flat. $24.99 each plus shipping.
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 "TURTLE AND HIS YOUNG SON" "This famous bear hunter of the Pecunnies is bringing up his son in the traditions of is people." |
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 "LITTLE PLUME" "A Pecunnie Brave--against a background of pictographs." |
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"PLUME" "A modern representative of the Kainahs--proud owner of many lodges, horses, and a large herd of cattle." |
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"NOT REAL BEAR WOMAN" "Picking kinnikinic. The small leaves of the Bearbery plant are dried and mixed with smoking tobacco." |
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"TWO GUNS" "Son of one of the last great Pecunnie Chieftains, White Calf, who died in Washington, D.C., in 1904, while there on a mission for his people." |
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"SINGING IN THE CLOUDS" "A Pecunnie child with doll whose hair is made from a scalp-lock taken in an Indian war." |
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