This website presents for sale laser color reproductions of original watercolor or oil paintings of the colorful trains, planes, automobiles, and ships that served our nation's transportation needs throughout the twentieth century. The reproductions are printed on 80-pound cardstock in either 11" x 17" or 12" x 18" format, and all are suitable for standard 16" x 20" framing when matted. Image size is either 10.5" x 14.5" or 11.75" x 15.75". In many cases, the original painting is also still available for sale, as are some original graphite pencil drawings of historic transportation subjects.
Reproductions are uniformly priced at $22.50 each which includes packing and shipping. Sales tax is added for shipments to a California address. Original paintings start at $500. Please contact the artist for price and availability of originals, or for wholesale purchases of reproduction.
Historic Transportation Art had its beginnings painting commissioned watercolor portraits of restored vintage automobiles and trucks and firefighting vehicles for the artist’s personal friends and fellow members of the American Truck Historical Society. The charm of paintings rather than photographs was that the vehicles could be portrayed in dramatic, artistically rendered and historically and geographically accurate and appropriate scenes from the past that, in most cases, could no longer be recreated.
In 1999, the artist began creating a series of railroad art depicting trains of the Boston and Maine Railroad as they appeared in the 1930s to the 1950s along the incredibly colorful and historic line from Conway, NH, through Crawford’s Notch over the White Mountain range. The image size of the paintings was made 11 ½ x 14 ½ - inches so that inexpensive copies could easily be made by color laser printers on 11 x 17 - inch paper and the reproductions sold as affordable souvenirs of the “Rail Fans Weekend” held every October by the Conway Scenic tourist railroad. The reproductions were so well-received that both the Alamo Aviation Art Gallery, then of North Conway, and the Hartmann Model Railroad Museum of Intervale became dealers selling them year-round. In the same way, several subsequent series of paintings were created for other railroad and model railroad museums, civil aviation airport gift shops, firefighting museums, and maritime museums.
