Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.29

Allegheny County Farm, McKnight Road

October 1 1947 (Date published)
1946 – 1947 (Date created)
Gouache
Painting
Paintings
22.5 in W x 17.5 in H (Frame)
20.25 in W x 15 in H (Image)
American
2 wooden farm houses and side buildings situated amongst leaf-less trees on typical PA hillside, farmer with pipe in bust-length at bottom center of composition
"Expect for the German farmer, early agriculturalists of Pennsylvania were a restless, nomadic group. As urban civilization encroached in the East they moved West, to grow potatoes, cereal, hay and livestock in Allegheny County and the Appalachian section. Farms both East and West in the State were cleared by frontiersmen." (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
Landscapes
Farming