About Artist Larry Grossman
Artist Larry Grossman’s professional art career began when he bought an airbrush at age fifteen. He soon began painting and selling wild T-shirts at hot rod shows and events such as “The Teen-Age Fair” in Hollywood, often working for the legendary “King of the Car Kustomizers”, George Barris.
In 1967 Larry moved to Berkeley, where he graduated (majoring in film and photography) from CCAC Art School. An animation short film he single-handedly created as a senior won Grand Prize in several film festivals, and he later returned to CCAC to teach animation. In 1981 the Disney Studios enticed Larry back to L.A. to work as a designer on the studio’s landmark first-computerized film “TRON.” After that, Larry created airbrushed art on a free-lance basis for Disney, Warner Bros., and Dreamworks Studios, and also illustrated album covers for legendary musician Frank Zappa, among others.
In the mid 90’s Larry retired his trusty airbrush after becoming enthralled with the creative potential of the computer while working on the 1982 film “Tron.” Larry soon developed his current unique artistic process, which combines digital airbrushing with his own photography. The resulting images are distinctive, unique and striking, and often reflect Larry’s love for the styles of the 1930-50’s (Art Deco in particular). In addition, he owns a 1932 Ford hot rod and a 1961 Nash Metropolitan Convertible (he does all of his own work), and also collects and wears vintage clothes from those periods as well.
The art Larry creates through his current business, Retrovisions, is currently exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide, including the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Museum of Neon Art, the National Hot Rod Museum, the Gene Autry Western Museum, and many airplane museum gift shops. In addition to self-publishing more than seventy-five posters, Larry has also created art for companies such as In-N-Out Burger and Bob’s Big Boy. He also accepts commissions from customers who want custom-tailored art featuring themselves, their airplanes, cars, or whatever.
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Those Remarkable Trains 2023 Wall Calendar
$15.95This remarkable collection of classic steam locomotives offers thundering power and great style through more than 50 years of railroading. Locomotives include: Russian Decapod 2-10-0 from 1917, Northern Pacific Alco-built Challenger 4-6-6-4 from 1936, Nickel Plate Lima-built Berkshire 2-8-4, Southern Pacific Mikado 2-8-2 from 1911, Louisville and Nashville Mountain 4-8-2, Delaware and Hudson Northern 4-8-4 from 1943, Western Maryland Pacific 4-6-2 Baldwin-built in 1912, and more. Don’t miss the call!
This 2023 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size
Locomotives and railroads featured in this edition include:
• Norfolk and Western 1209, a Class A 2-6-6-4, one of 43 locomotives built by the company’s Roanoke shops, sits between assignments at the Columbus, OH engine terminal on March 22, 1958.
• On February 6, 1949, Midland Terminal locomotive 59, a Consolidation (2-8-0), was the power for a four-car roundtrip between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek.
• The Gainesville Midland (GM) was a 41-mile-long railroad in north central Georgia that linked Gainesville and Athens, with a connection to the Seaboard Air Line. GM 207, a Russian-ordered decapod (2-10-0) from 1917, is on a freight near Athens in March 1959.
• The Northern Pacific owned 21 Class Z-6 Challenger (4-6-6-4) locomotives, numbered 5100 through 5120. All were built by the American Locomotive Company in 1936. This image shows 5107 arriving with a westbound freight at Livingston, MT on March 18, 1956.
• New York, Chicago, and St. Louis (better known as the Nickel Plate Road) locomotives 739 and 766, both coal burning Type S-2 Berkshires (2-8-4s), are on a doubleheaded eastbound freight near Valparaiso, IN on June 10, 1957.
• Southern Pacific (SP) 18 is working as a point helper in concert with Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge (DSNG) Class K-37
Mikado 493 (2-8-2) a mile north of Pinkerton, CO on June 21, 2021. Locomotive 18 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 and delivered to the Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad. SP purchased the engine in 1928.
• Grand Trunk Western 6408 is a Class U-4-b Northern (4-8-4), one of six engines built in 1938 by Lima Locomotive.
• Louisville and Nashville (L&N) 1977, a Class M Mountain (4-8-2), has a coal train in tow on the Ravenna Branch south of Winchester, KY on June 5, 1956. The first batch of Class M-1s was built in 1942 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, followed by six more in 1944.
• Delaware and Hudson 311, one of 15 Northern (4-8-4) locomotives built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company, sits at Schenectady, NY in October 1949.
• Western Maryland Pacific (4-6-2) 208 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1912, has westbound two-car, passenger-mail train #3 on the approach to the west end of Jerome, WV on October 30, 1952.
• Central Vermont 465 and 464, two Class N-5a Consolidations (2-8-0s), are on a southbound, doubleheaded freight, pounding up State Line Grade in the fall of 1954. Both locomotives were built by the American Locomotive Company in 1923.
• Colorado and Southern 908, a Santa Fe-Type Class E-5B (2-10-2) built in 1919 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is on a short southbound four-car freight leaving Pueblo, CO on Valentine’s Day 1953.
