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Smoke, Steel, and Slag:
Paintings of Industrial Pittsburgh

University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building

The exhibitionSmoke, Steel, and Slag: Paintings of Industrial Pittsburgh will be on display in the lobby area of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh from April 19- August 31, 2007.

Hours are:
Monday through Thursday 11 AM-7 PM
Friday 11AM-5PM
Saturday 12 noon-5 PM

            This exhibition features powerful paintings of industrial Pittsburgh by artists Aaron Gorson, Edward Millman, Adolf Dehn, and Aaron Bohrod.  During the 1940’s, these artists captured the drama of the steel mills that belched smoke and ash and lit up the sky at night. 

A Few Highlights:

In Edward Millman’s Bessemer Blowing, workers are dwarfed by immense industrial equipment that blows air through a bath of molten iron.  The reds and oranges of the molten iron give the viewer a sense of the intense heat and difficult working conditions inside the mills.  In Dumping Slag, Pittsburgh, Aaron Bohrod depicts the dumping of fiery slag, the waste product of the steel-making process.  Carried by train, the molten slag would be dumped in isolated spots.