Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.32

Pennsylvania Turnpike

1947 (Date created)
October 1 1947 (Date published)
Watercolor
Painting
Paintings
40 in W x 30 in H (Frame)
28.75 in W x 18.75 in H (Image)
American
Landscape with trees, hills, and vehicles traveling on the PA turnpike (the first American tunnel superhighway completed in 1940).
"This $70,000,000 modern four-lane East-West toll road from Carlisle to Pittsburgh, first American tunnel superhighway, was completed in 1940. It incorporates six miles of tunnels dug from the mountains in 1883 by William H., son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who dreamed of a railroad that never was built." (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
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