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Aaron Gorson
Pittsburgh Steel Mills at Night

Price:$75,000

$87,500List Price

About the Item

Provenance Spanierman Gallery, New York; Private collection, Pennsylvania Pioneer industrial landscapist Aaron Harry Gorson, born in 1872, came to the United States in 1890 from his native Lithuania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz. In Paris in 1899, he studied at the Academie Colarossi with Jean Paul Laurens, and the Academie Julien with Benjamin Constant. After Paris, Gorson returned to Pittsburgh in 1903 where he lived and painted until the early 1920s. He was a true urban poet of the paintbrush, in love with the night-time beauty of industrial Pittsburgh, the magic of smelting and manufacturing, the glowing of the many lights and their effects on the multi-shaped clouds of smoke amid the setting of the curving Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers. What we today, in our perhaps overly sentimental environmental way, would view only as pollution, Gorson saw as moving visual poetry and monumental artistic beauty. Gorson's paintings of the mills were highly prized by collectors during the last thirty years of his life, and he is remembered today for his achievements in this genre. He was also widely exhibited in major American art museums like the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and National Academy of Design in New York City. Gorson moved to New York City in 1921, where his professional career continued to flourish until his death of pneumonia in 1933.

Creator:
Aaron Gorson (1872 - 1933, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement Style:
Realist
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Excellent overall condition. The canvas is lined and has been re-stretched. There is small v-shaped tear, that could be puncture wound, in the upper right side. There is another small area of inpaint, about ½ inch, in the lower-middle left.
Gallery Location:
Bryn Mawr, PA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2773216166592

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