Publications by Winold Reiss

Reiss, Winold. "The Modern German Poster."
M.A.C. (Modern Art Collector) 1, No. 1, 1915.

--- "The Oberammergau Players."
The Century Magazine 104, no. 5 (1922): 727-742.

---, and Frank Linderman. Blackfeet Indians.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Great Northern Railway, 1935.

---, and Albert Charles Schweizer. You Can Design.
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., Whittlesey House, 1939.

---, Piegan Indian Legends of Rock and Crow Woman as Told to Beaver Child by Chief Little Dog. New York: Grinnell Lithographic Co., Inc., 1940

--- "Evolution of Café Decoration"
The Restaurant Man, April 1947, 9, 24.


Publications about Winold Reiss

Brauen, Fred. Winold Reiss 1886-1953: Color and Design in the New American Art. New York:1980. (Published manuscript deposited with New York Public Library.)

von Buch, Asta. "A German View of American History? Winold Reiss's Mosaics at Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1931-33." In American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes, edited by Fuhrmeister, Christian, Hubertus Kohle, and Veerle Thielemans, 211-224. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009.

Ewers, John C. "Winold Reiss: His Portraits and Protégés." Montana, the Magazine of Western History 21, no. 3 (1971): 44-55.

Flores, Dan. "Winold Reiss: Blackfeet and the Great Northern Railroad."
Big Sky Journal 10, no. 4 (2003): 34-41.

Gachot, Ted. "We Go Deco." Food Arts 13, no. 25 (2000): 80-85.

Grant, Marion. Diverse Reflections: Portraits by Winold Reiss. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: The Berkshire Museum, 1997.

Heminway, John. "An Immigrant Artist Captured the Faces of the New World." Smithsonian Magazine 20, no. 8 (1989): 172-82.

--- "Winold Reiss: A Profile." In Native Faces: Winold Reiss. Bozeman, edited by Peter Riess. Montana: Thomas Nygard Gallery, 1997.

Kashey, Elizabeth. Winold Reiss (1886-1953) Centennial Exhibition. Works on Paper: Architectural Designs, Fantasies, and Portraits. New York: Shepherd Gallery, Associates, Inc. 1986.

Hurley, Daniel. "A Vision of Cincinnati: The Worker Murals of Winold Reiss." In Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Artistry of Winold Reiss, edited by Dottie L. Lewis, 81-96: Queen City Heritage 51, no. 2/3. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1993.

Mehring, Frank. "’The Unfinished Business of Democracy’: Transcultural Confrontations in the Portraits of the German-American Artist Winold Reiss." In American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes, edited by Fuhrmeister, Christian, Hubertus Kohle, and Veerle Thielemans, 193-221. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009.

--- "Portraying Transnational America: Aesthetic and Political Dimensions in Winold Reiss's 'Plea for Color.'" In Reframing the Transnational Turn in American Studies, edited by Fluck, Winfried, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, 164-192. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2011.

--- "'The Democratic Gap': Transcultural confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy." Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014

--- "The Visual Harlem Renaissance; or, Winold Reiss in Mexico." Amerikastudien/American Studies (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Sollors, Werner and Glenda Carpio, eds.) 55, no. 4. (2010): 629-640.

Peatross, C. Ford. "Winold Reiss: A Pioneer of Modern American Design." In Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Artistry of Winold Reiss, edited by Dottie L. Lewis, 38-57: Queen City Heritage 51, no. 2/3. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1993.

Reiss, W. Tjark. "My Father Winold Reiss - Recollections by Tjark Reiss." In Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Artistry of Winold Reiss, edited by Dottie L. Lewis, 58-80: Queen City Heritage 51, no. 2/3. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1993.

Steele, Ray W., ed. Winold Reiss, Portraits of the Races: Art Has No Prejudice. With an introduction by Ned Jacob and an essay by Paul Raczka. Great Falls, Montana: C.M. Russell Museum, 1986.

Stewart, Jeffrey C. To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss. With an essay by John C. Ewers. Washington City: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

--- Winold Reiss, An Illustrated Checklist of his Portraits. Washington City: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

---"Winold Reiss As A Portraitist." In Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Artistry of Winold Reiss, edited by Dottie L. Lewis, 3-19: Queen City Heritage 51, no. 2/3. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1993.

Tanner, Scott. A Biography of Winold Reiss: The Man Who Created the Great Northern Railway's Blackfeet Indian Portraits. Great Northern Railway Historical Society Reference Sheet No. 242, 1996.

Thorp, Gregory. "My Encounter with Reiss." In Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Artistry of Winold Reiss, edited by Dottie L. Lewis, 20-37: Queen City Heritage 51, no. 2/3. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1993.

West, Richard V., ed. Winold Reiss, Native American Portraits. With an essay by Scott J. Tanner. Seattle, Washington: Frye Art Museum, 2000.

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