HARVEY SCHMIDT
The Lamp
Jersey Shore
Southern New Jersey was and still is a favorite time capsule of life as well as old architecture. “The Lamp,” the corporate magazine of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (not Exxon Mobil), honored the glories of its home state with a feature spread in the fall of 1964. Thus was born a new series of Harvey’s paintings. Preserved even today are many buildings dating from the mid-1800s when a railroad reached South Jersey and it became an early Atlantic seashore resort, a center of which was Cape May and its Lighthouse.
Men and Equipment Working
A series of thirty-six gouaches on Highway Construction and Equipment,
painted in California, Texas and New Mexico, Summer 1958
Awarded a Gold Medal from New York Society of Illustrators
and an Award of Distinctive Merit from the Art Director’s Club of New York
