In 1958, Albert Trostel and Sons Company, one of the world’s largest providers of automotive leather, commissioned artist Franklin Boggs to paint a series of images depicting the leather industry. Renowned art critic Frank Getlein said the resulting works “symbolized the relationship between art and industry. It focused on man’s impact on both, and vividly demonstrated how color and form take on meaning for themselves.”
A limited number of prints of the paintings were made shortly after Boggs painted them and the GEORGE PEABODY HOUSE MUSEUM now owns a complete set.
