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Ted Rose Gallery

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© Copyright 2004 Ted Rose Studio

Extra-Board Crew, watercolor, 9" x 12," 1998.

"I can't imagine not depicting people," said Ted Rose (1940-2002), a member in the American Watercolor Society who painted from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "In many cases, I focus on the workers rather than the railroad or the location. A lot of them are trainmen, trackworkers, Pullman porters, steel workers, and a whole range of people who have to do with what I see and want to depict." Railroading was a significant subject in Rose's work. Many of his watercolors included railroads and railroad workers as a part of a colorful industrial and agricultural landscape. For Rose, a Milwaukee native who started painting in his early teens, the landscape was a dynamic man-made place that included architecture, grain elevators, depots, terminals, tracks, and people. This theme reverberates in the text and 61 paintings reproduced in In the Traces: Railroad Paintings of Ted Rose (Indiana University Press, 2000). The paintings and quotes here first appeared in Railroad Heritage No. 4, 2001. Rose is remembered for his passion for painting, love of family, and recognition in the mainstream art world.

In accord with Rose's wishes, the Center has an exhibition, conservation, and publishing program underway.