Description: Industrial Prints, Posters and Coloring Book by Frederick W. Bartlett II including aircraft, coal mine and railroad station prints as well as many others and featuring places like Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Californina, Colorado, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan and New Hampshire.
posters (2367) locomotives (123) coal mines (12) oil wells (6) grist mills (4) railroad stations (2) maritime drawings (2) industrial prints (1) aircraft drawings (1) gold mills (1)
The hope to preserve a small remembrance of what once served well in the past was a prime concern of fine artist Fred Bartlett . Specializing in industrial relics as they appeared during his time, his race with demolition was often close, many times lost. Armed with a simple 35mm camera, a tripod and telephoto lens, he touched base with his subject matter almost always by chance and rarely in a well-planned effort. He just happened down that road, the light was right and the subject was worth recording. Sin
Each drawing began in rough pencil outline form and was finalized in free hand pen and ink; either as a series of dots (stipple technique), line drawing, or a combination of the two. The process was laborious, time consuming, demanding and required meticulous attention to detail for hours at a time. Original pen and ink drawing completion times varied from under one hundred hours to the extreme of over 800 hours. Following the completion of each original drawing, most were reproduced through a high quality
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