Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.01

From Mount Washington, Pittsburgh

October 1 1947 (Date published)
1946 – 1947 (Date created)
Oil
Painting
Paintings
33.5 in W x 38 in H (Frame)
23.625 in W x 28 in H (Image)
American
Snow-covered wooden houses perched on steep Pittsburgh hillside on right, with characteristic long wooden stairs in center extending down to distant mills, phone polls at left.
"The development of commerce and industry along its rivers forced Pittsburgh's home builders to perch their wooden houses, sometimes called "clingers", precariously on steep hillsides where they could be free from the menace of flood, and reach home by means of cable cars on inclined planes such as the Monongahela Incline. Characteristic, also, are the long wooden stairs giving access by foot to the various levels." (D. Grafty, "Pennsylvania as Artists See It: The Gimbel Pennsylvania 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.
Landscapes
Corporate commissions
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Industry