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Title:	Gil Reid and Friends: Working on the Railroad
Date:	9/6/2024 - 12/22/2024
Address:	Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202,
Location:	Milwaukee, WI
Hours:	Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. / Saturday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. / Sunday: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	free - $5
Web Page:	https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/exhibitions-events/
Contact Info:	(414) 277-2300

Details:

Sometimes called the “railroad industry’s very own Picasso,” Gil Reid’s work ranks among the all-time great railroad art. Gilmore Wiley Reid (1918-2007) was born in St. Louis but, following his service in the Second World War, made his lifelong home in Wisconsin where he practiced as a commercial artist for decades. Reid worked for Kalmbach Publishing in Waukesha from 1956 to 1978 as an illustrator for Trains and Model Railroader magazines. He also created illustrations for Amtrak’s annual calendars from the 1970s to the early '90s, among his other work for books, posters, and prints. Reid’s longtime friends and collectors, Rita and Chris Burger, have established an archive of his art and Amtrak calendar work at the Grohmann Museum from which this exhibition is drawn. From initial sketches to printed product, the railroad art of this amazing watercolorist will be joined by other images or railroading from the Museum’s collection, including work by O. Winston Link, David Plowden, and others, including Chris Burger himself.