Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.22

Fog on the Ohio or Tug on the Ohio River Above Pittsburgh

October 1 1947 (Date accessioned)
1946 – 1947 (Date created)
Oil
Painting
Paintings
72 in W x 36 in H (Object)
American
Fully loaded coal barge steaming down the Ohio River, shore in foreground and steaming steel mill in background behind barge.


"The Ohio River, great U.S. waterway, forms with its four tributaries one of the most important drainage and water transportation systems in the country. Fought over the pre-Revolutionary days by the French and British, its importance as traffic artery has grown steadily from the era of furs to that of coal and steel." (D. Grafty, "Pennsylvania as Artists See it: The Gimbel PA Art Collection", 1948)
In Collection
ca. 1959, University Art Gallery Gift of Mr. Steve Osterweis, President of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.

ca. 1946-1959, Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
Catalog of October 1, 1947 (first publication of the paintings)

D. Grafty, "Pennsylvania as Artists See it: The Gimbel PA Art Collection", 1948

R. Gigler, "Pittsburgh's Man of Steel", Pittsburgh Press Roto, August 12, 1979.

O. Francis, "The Saga of Joe Magarac Steelman", Scribner's Magazine, nov. 1931.

Roy Kahn, "Real Pittsburgh: Just an Average Joe", Pittsburgh Magazine, nov. 1985, 17-18.

Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Feb. 25, 1948

John Oliver La Gorce, "Artists Look At Pennsylvania", National Geographic Magazine

Catalogue from March 1959 when the collection was presented at the new University Student Union at Pitt (formerly Schenley Hotel).
Please note that cataloging is ongoing and that some information may not be complete.
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