Horicon Station

Jack Damer

This multicolor lithograph was commissioned by the state of Wisconsin to commemorate the founding of the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad. The first train rolled on this new line on July 1, 1980. Jack Damer’s lithography work often centered on machines, especially automobiles and other forms of transportation, and he used photography techniques to retain a sense of realism but would often distort the sense of space or use colors to act as filters, as with film.

Horicon, Wisconsin is a small town in Dodge County at the southern tip of Horicon Marsh Wildlife Area, at 32,000 acres the largest cattail marsh in the U.S. where yearly tens of thousands of migrating Canada geese stop on their long trip south.

Damer was a Professor of Lithography and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Over 25 museums and art centers have works by Professor Damer, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. See more about the artist in biography (link above).