Featured in this lot is this Great Northern Railroad, Winold Reiss (1886-1953) "Empire Builder" full calendar from 1956. The calendar features the artwork of Winold Reiss, who is well known for his artwork of the Blackfeet Indians. This artwork shows "Crow Chief Blackfeet Indian Chieftain Glacier National Park in Montana". The top left features a small card reading, "The Story of Crow Chief Blackfeet Indian Chieftain appears beneath the calendar pad as a permanent reference". The bottom section shows the calendar and reads, "Great Domes on the Incomparable Empire Builder / Daily Between Chicago and Seattle--Portland. F. Winold Reiss was a German-born American artist and graphic designer. In 1920, he went West for the first time, working for months on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, painting 36 portraits of tribal members. Over the years Reiss painted more than 250 works depicting Native Americans. These paintings by Reiss became known more widely beginning in the 1920s to the 1950s, when the Great Northern Railway commissioned Reiss to do paintings of the Blackfeet which were then distributed widely as lithographed reproductions on Great Northern calendars. In 1931, and 1934-37, Reiss organized a summer art school, also referred to as an artists' colony near Glacier National Park. The calendar shows good condition overall, age tanning and slight foxing, small tear at top right corner, no other marring noted. It measures 33.25" L x 16" W and weighs 12 ounces.