Born in 1913, Jerome Biederman was a nationally recognized illustrator of transportation. Whether his subject was an automobile, aircraft, or locomotive, his renderings were technically accurate and highly detailed. His medium of choice was tempera paint on illustration board.
After graduating from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, he entered the advertising world where he did almost everything except illustration. By 1940, he chose to leave the corporate advertising world and return to the creative atmosphere of a studio.
After graduating from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, he entered the advertising world where he did almost everything except illustration. By 1940, he chose to leave the corporate advertising world and return to the creative atmosphere of a studio.
He was working for the McCleery-Cumming Corporation in 1956, a calendar company, who retained the artist to create six paintings for each of their 1958 automobile calendars.
He painted for the calendar company for 36 years, and in the first 31 of those years, 186 automobile paintings were printed without interruption. A total of 444 Biederman transportation paintings were published in McCleery-Cumming calendars by 1993. In addition to the calendars, Mr. Biederman's automotive paintings were featured prominently in Playboy magazine, Automobile Quarterly and Horseless Carriage Gazette.
1893 Mogul Freight
1856 Baltimore and Ohio "William Mason"
1860 Hamilton-Ontario "Scotia"
1859 Philadelphia and Reading "Hiawatha"
1860 Rogers Locomotive Works 4.4.0 freight
1908 Mack Fuel Tank Truck
TY for wonderful post -- totally enjoyable!Q
ReplyDeleteyou are so welcome! I'm glad to find such beautiful artwork and share it, especially when it's from someone I've never heard of that was famous, accomplished, and only vaguely mentioned by Steve in reference to something unrelated to cars... so, not only can I claim to have discovered something amazing to blog about from the crumbs of another's conversation, it turned out so well, that you compliment it! Astonishingly great post from so little! To see hundreds more of his paintings, click the links. I only selected the ones I liked most
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