Size: 17" x 23" Framed: 28" x 33" magnificent birdseye maple frame with the original gilt liner, English, 19th c. Archival 8 ply mat, museum glass. A massive freight car filled with coal dominates the composition of this gritty industrial landscape. The low perspective emphasizes the mass and weight of the train while the strong diagonal of the tracks draws us into the picture and places us on equal footing with the yardman. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 11″ x 15″ Framed: 21" x 25.5" Antique birdseye maple frame with original giltwood liner. Archival linen mat with water gilt fillet, museum glass. Grant Masters, the artist’s grandfather, stands outside the Missouri Pacific Railroad crossing shanty. These small structures, owned by the railroads and painted in their corporate colors, yellow and brown in this case, provided shelter for the so-called crossing tenders. Before the introduction of automatic gates to protect traffic and pedestrians from passing trains, crossing tenders, often semi-retired old timers, raised and lowered the gates by hand. They worked from these diminutive shelters, usually fitted with little more than a chair and a wood burning stove, both of which are visible through the window. Ulysses Grant Masters was the family patriarch and the first generation of Masters to work for the railroad. Born in rural Missouri in 1866, he began working for the Missouri Pacific as a section-hand around 1890. Section hands, or gandy dancers, as they were often called, were unskilled laborers who laid track and maintained the surrounding right of way along a section of track that could be anywhere from 5 to 25 miles long. They performed some of the hardest work for some of the lowest wages of any job on the railroad. He worked his way up to section foreman and moved to the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood in 1919 where he lived in a similarly painted MoPac section house. Situated at the confluence of two sets of tracks, it consisted of a kitchen and 2 bedrooms. It had electricity and running water in the kitchen but no other indoor plumbing. He and his wife Louisa had 12 children, only 6 of whom survived to adulthood. Their oldest son, John, who occasionally worked for the railroad, was Stan’s father. Grant retired in the late 1930s and in this dignified portrait, alternately titled “King and Castle”, the blue-collar aristocrat, as the railroaders were sometimes called, stands in front of his keep, nattily dressed in a vest and fedora, stop sign in hand. In the background, a freight train to the left and a portion of the iconic Kirkwood Station to the right further attest to his life along the rails. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Call or write with any questions about this piece 314-644-7066.
Size: 16.25″ x 14″ Framed: 26″ x 24” Wonderful antique birdseye maple frame with silver gilt liner, English, 19th c. Archival mat, museum glass. It's a busy day at the iconic Kirkwood Station in Kirkwood, Missouri. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 11″ x 17″ Framed: 17.5" x 24" Modern Larson Juhl coffee-colored frame. Archival mat, regular glass. It's a sunny day at the abandoned Longview Station. The bright red switch target, as it's called, above the broken window enlivens the scene with an intriguing flash of color. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 17″ x 22.5″ Framed: 27″ x 32.5″ Artist’s original frame with a double mat, regular glass. Bears a typed label suggesting this painting was exhibited. Louisa Masters stands on the steps of the Missouri Pacific Railroad section house in Kirkwood, MO. Her husband, Grant Masters, who was section foreman for the railroad, can be seen inside. Note the tracks in the foreground, passing within just a few feet of the house, and another set behind. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.- Out of stock
Size: 10.5" x 17" Framed: 20" x 26.5" Beautiful antique birdseye maple frame with original liner, mellow color and patina, 19th c. Archival linen mat, water gilt liners, museum glass. This poignant watercolor depicts a massive locomotive rusting in a field, its surface in perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape. The tracks in the foreground draw us into the picture toward the enigmatic pole, enhancing the quiet contemplative mood. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece. 
Size: 17" x 22.5" Framed: 23.5" x 29.5" Modern Larson Juhl coffee-colored frame. Archival mat, regular glass. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 11″ x 15.5″ Framed: 21" x 25" Artist's original oak frame, mat with pen lines. Regular glass. The old 2363 stands in a stylized landscape, a glint of daylight flashing off the broken window. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 10.5″ x 17″ Framed: 22.5″ x 29″ Vintage pine frame with gilt liners. Archival mat, museum glass. A freight train stops to fill its water tanks, the engineer greeted by the mascot. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Call or write with any questions about this piece 314-644-7066.
Size: 17″ x 22.5″ Framed: 27" x 32.5" Artist's original frame with a double mat, regular glass. Bears a typed label suggesting this painting was exhibited. It's a quiet, sunny day at the iconic Kirkwood Train Station. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
Size: 15″ x 21″ Framed: 21.5" x 28" Modern Larson Juhl coffee-colored frame. Archival mat, regular glass. A railroad worker gestures on the tracks between a freight train and water tank in this gritty, arid view. Giclee prints from $30 available at Fine Art America HERE. SHIPPING: $150 flat rate for shipping and packaging within the contiguous 48 states. Please contact us prior to purchase for shipping quotes to Alaska, Hawaii, and international destinations. Contact Robert Morrissey with any questions about this piece.
