Showing posts with label Rockwell Kent. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Iron and Coal, Petroleum and Steel



Now through October 25, 2015, there's a fabulous art exhibit titled Iron and Coal, Petroleum and Steel: Industrial Art From the Steidle Collection at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA. The image above is from Rockwell Kent's Power...for the Wheels of Progress.






  ~ Rockwell Kent's Power...for the Wheels of Progress - 1945 ~


 ~ A closeup of the passenger ~



The painting above was one of my favorites in the collection. It shows trains dumping slag. To learn more about this process, you can watch a neat video about trains dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994 at this link.


~ Steel by Edmund Marion Ashe (painted before 1942) ~


From the permanent collection is this magnificent Portrait of George Washington by artist Rembrandt Peale. With a name like Rembrandt, it has to be good.