Brauer Museum of Art

On Wednesday, January 28 at 7 pm in the museum, the Brauer Museum of Art presents a free public Gallery Talk by Charles G. Kratz, Jr. Kratz is the author of American Railroad China: Image and Experience, the book accompanying the Christopher railroad china exhibition. A former railroad museum director, Kratz now works as a statistical consultant and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the school’s visual communications department.  For his Gallery Talk, Kratz will focus on five designers who designed corporate materials, including china patterns, for major American railroads. The designers George Pullman, Mary Elizabeth Colter, Olive W. Dennis, Raymond Loewy, and Henry Dreyfuss are all respected figures whose individual stories figure into the overall history of dining on rails. Through his discussion of their careers and contributions, Kratz will offer even more context for the elegant experience of dining in style on board classic dining cars.

We at the Brauer Museum of Art hope you will be able to attend this program with a noted authority on the history of dining car china design.

This free program is open to the public. For more information about his exhibition and other events, please visit the website www.valpo.edu/artmuseum or call (219) 464-5048.

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