My Illinois Railway Museum Poster

16 x 12 inch poster illustrated with the watercolor painting Saddle-tank Switch Engine by George C. Clark

In 2010 I had an exhibition of my landscape, figure and railroad paintings at the John H. Vanderpoel Art Museum.  I made hundreds of 5 x 7 inch announcement cards and 20 16 x 12 inch posters to publicize that exhibition, all featuring my watercolor Saddle-tank Switch Engine, which I had painted on-site at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.  I sent a poster to the Railway Museum and asked them to post it where the museum's volunteer workers could see it.  A week later I got a phone call from the manager of the IRM museum store asking me to make a poster for them to sell with the same image on it.  I self-published the poster above and it is available for $10 at the museum store when it is open daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day plus weekends in May and September.