Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.19

Hollidaysburg

October 1 1947 (Date published)
1946 – 1947 (Date created)
Oil
Painting
Paintings
83.5 in W x 47.5 in H (Frame)
71.5 in W x 35.5 in H (Image)
American
Pittsburgh Railroad (PRR) yards at Hollidaysburg from vantage point of yard "hump," Loaded cars on left, uncoupled in switch turnouts, city in background.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad freight storage yards at Hollidaysburg are here viewed from the vantage of the yard 'hump' down which uncoupled freight cars coast into the switch turn-outs. The 'classification' yards at left are filled with loaded cars ready to be made into a train (preliminary sketch of this painting also included in collection)." (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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