Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.02

4:30 Shift at Aliquippa Works

October 1 1947 (Date published)
1946 – 1947 (Date created)
Ink, Crayon, Gouache
Lithograph
Prints
30 in W x 22.25 in H (Frame)
26.875 in W x 22.25 in H (Image)
American
Scene in sepia and browns of somber workers and car exiting tunnel in middleground, with steel mill smoking in background.
"The Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, the largest independent producer of steel in the United States, was founded by B. F. Jones who sold a profitable canal business to start a small puddling works on the south bank of the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. The present corporation employs approximately 27,000 persons." (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.
Corporate commissions
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Industry
Social