This Coffee Mug – Pennsylvania Railroad – Artist Grif Teller (PRR Crossroads Of Commerce) coffee mug features 1953 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar ad “Crossroads of Commerce” with E-8 diesels #5898, RF-16 Shark-nose diesels, #2012 and N8 cabin cars near Weirton WV and Steubenville Ohio.
Artist Grif Teller painted 27 of the 33 PRR calendar scenes over the years. ( Each year, starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) commissioned a striking oil painting of a PRR engine in a dramatic setting, which was featured on a large wall calendar that the company distributed by the hundreds of thousands to customers and the public.
This is an 11 ounce, microwavable, dishwasher safe coffee mug. The mug is printed on both sides. Picture shows both sides.
Who is
Grif Teller? In 1927, Teller was given an assignment to paint the 1928 wall calendar scene for the Pennsylvania Railroad.[6] The Pennsylvania returned to Teller the next year, and he eventually painted all of the calendar scenes for their calendars up to 1942. Other artists were contracted to paint the artwork for the calendar during World War II, as the Pennsylvania was favoring more patriotic scenes.[7] Teller painted for the Pennsylvania once again after the war, starting with the 1947 calendar. The Osborne Company was sold to a competitor in 1953, eventually causing Teller to be laid off.[7] He continued to paint for the Pennsylvania as a freelancer, until the railroad discontinued full-size wall calendars in 1959.[8] His freelance work, which encompassed both railroad and non-railroad subjects, continued into the 1980s.
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