Grif Teller
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Griffith Harold "Grif" Teller (December 9, 1899 – April 8, 1993) was an artist best known for his paintings for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Early life
Teller was born on December 9, 1899, in Newark, New Jersey.Template:Sfnp Teller attended the Barringer High School until his junior year, when he transferred to the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts.Template:Sfnp With what started as a temporary job with the Osborne Company, an advertising and color calendar company, towards the end of World War I, Teller was hired permanently after showing the head of Osborne's Designing Department some of his paintings.Template:Sfnp
He was a long-time resident of Little Falls, New Jersey.[1]
Career
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In 1927, Teller was given an assignment to paint the 1928 wall calendar scene for the Pennsylvania Railroad.Template:Sfnp 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.Template:Sfnp 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.Template:Sfnp He continued to paint for the Pennsylvania as a freelancer, until the railroad discontinued full-size wall calendars in 1959.[2] His freelance work, which encompassed both railroad and non-railroad subjects, continued into the 1980s.
Teller's 1928 painting, When the Broadway Meets the Dawn, was used as the background for the "Preserve Our Heritage" special-fund license plate introduced in 1998 by PennDOT to help fund Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission programs, which are still sold as of 2025.[3]
References
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- ↑ Simmons, Rose. "Grif Teller, 93; Made His Railway Paintings Into 'A Work Of Art'", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 1993. Retrieved July 9, 2015. "Born in Newark, N.J., Mr. Teller lived most of his life in his home town and in Little Falls, N.J."
- ↑ Many of his Pennsylvania paintings are reproduced in Alvin Staufer's book, "Pennsy Power: Steam and Electric Locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1900–1957" (1962, Alvin F. Staufer).
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- 1899 births
- 1993 deaths
- American landscape artists
- People from Little Falls, New Jersey
- Painters from Newark, New Jersey
- Barringer High School alumni
- Pennsylvania Railroad people
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American male artists