Sujet
Steel Mill at Night (Jones & Laughlin by Night)
Légende
Lithuanian-born Aaron Gorson (American, 1872-1933) presents an atmospheric masterwork Steel Mill at Night. Showing the iron and steel mills of Pittsburgh for which he became well known in the 1910s. Using a principal palette of blue-grays, he depicts one of the prominent mills along the Monongahela River, likely the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, his favorite industrial subject. Rising up from a crescent-shaped bend in the Monongahela, the various mill structures -- the factory with smokestacks and a coal hoist on the edge of the riverbank -- emit luminous, yellow-peach vapors into the night sky. Along the opposite shore, a puff of smoke from a barge carrying hot iron further illuminates the darkness, while pinpoint lights signal the residential areas of Pittsburgh. In the right foreground, a weighty dock with a gangplank anchors the composition, providing a foil to the shimmery water and cloud elements. Cleverly and perhaps ironically, Gorson uses the heaviest impasto for the weightless smoke and lights and the thinnest washes for the massive buildings. Steel Mill at Night is thus a poetic study of gradations of light, tones, and volumes.
Date
1919
Crédit
Photo12/UIG/Universal History Archive
Notre référence
UMG22A48_489
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
18,0Mo (1,7Mo) / 18,3cm x 24,7cm / 2157 x 2917 (300dpi)