Fire in the Night Sky: The Steel Mill Paintings of Aaron Gorson

Aaron Harry Gorson painted powerful and dramatic night scenes of Pittsburgh’s steel mills in the early 1900s. A pioneer industrial landscape artist, Gorson was partial to the nighttime beauty of industrial Pittsburgh and the magic of the glowing streams of molten iron and steel flowing from the blast furnaces and open hearths and their effects on river waters and night skies. He painted dozens of powerful nocturnes featuring the vast Jones and Laughlin mills located on both sides of the Mon...