Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Gift of The Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
1959.GIMBEL.34

From Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh

1947 (Date created)
October 1 1947 (Date published)
Oil
Painting
Paintings
53 in W x 38 in H (Frame)
41 in W x 25.625 in H (Image)
American
Figure of Christ in Clavary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, standing in front of Roman temple ruins looking out over Monongahela River with J&L Mills smoking over waterfront.
"Irony touches the life-size figure of Christ in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, as it stands against the pillar ruins of a Roman temple and looks out over the Monongahela River with the Jones and Laughlin mills smoking by the water-front. The gabled wooden houses climbing the many leveled slopes are typical of the city." (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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