Bern Hill Biography
Bern Hill, an underrated artist who did 65 paintings for General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division.
Many of his paintings are from viewpoints that could only be reached by aircraft.
“In the series created for the Electro-Motive Division, the viewer invariably was positioned at a far distance from the moving train and usually had birds-eye-view perspective that conveyed total silence, physical distance, and compelling fascination with the progress of the human-made sleek object that was cutting across the quiet, panoramic landscapes of mountains, bucolic farm scenes, outskirts of cities and precariously high, steel-girder bridges.”

He was trained as an illustrator and worked for a series of New York-based outfits including Peter Wolf Design where he worked on stage show and opera stage sets; Leisure and Recreation Concepts which specialized in designing theme parks, and Prelim and Associates where he focused on architectural drawings.  Hill also worked as a free-lance illustrator and painter with some of his bigger clients included Electro-Motive (a manufacturer of locomotives), The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and American Airlines.