Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.21

Dairy Farm Study

1946 (Date created)
October 1 1947 (Date published)
Watercolor, Ink
Painting
Paintings
32.5 in W x 26.5 in H x 1.97 in D (Frame)
21 in W x 14.5 in H (Image)
83 cm W x 67.4 cm H x 5 cm D (Frame)
American
Dairy farm with three buildings in middleground, rolling hills with trees behind and above, 5 grazing cows in foreground.
"An abundance of corn and hay has helped to develop dairying as the most important live stock industry in Pennsylvania. Milk from farms all over the State is sold to consumers annually for the approximate total of $200,000,000. Although other cattle have decreased in number in Pennsylvania since 1900, cows show a yearly increase. Largely concentrated in the southeastern portion of the State, dairy farms have spread into the Appalachian section and the Allegheny Plateau." (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.
Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Collection #34
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.
Corporate commissions
Western Pennsylvania
Social
Farming
Landscapes