Steel
Object number2021.58.1
Artist
Charles Bradley Warren
(1903 - 1967)
Date1935-1967
MediumSteel; Wood; Paint; Metal; Paper; Ink; Adhesive
Credit LineGift of Charlotte Marson
DescriptionHalf size scuplture model in gray steel of a steelworker. Male steelworker represented in outline in frontal view with head turned to the proper left and holding a long pronged tool in his hands; the tool runs diagonally across his body with his proper right hand uplifted holding the end of the handle and his proper left hand at his side holding the handle near the pronged end. The pronged tool clasps a bar of steel. Cloud-like shapes surround the figure's thighs, and steel mill buildings are represented behind the figure's proper right calf. Model is mounted on a rectangular piece of plywood with eight bolts and floats approximately 0.5-inch off the surface. The plywood is painted blue-green on the front. Each top corner has a drilled hole with hanging wire strung through.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 42.375 × 27.375 × 1.5 in. (107.6 × 69.5 × 3.8 cm)InscriptionsReverse of plywood is unpainted and has a white paper label adhered to the top proper left area bearing black printed and handwritten text "4 / Fill in and attach this card to / Sculpture. Type or Print / Plainly in Ink. / Reg. No. 943 / Title on this card should correspond with that under same number on cards 1, 2 and 3 / Title STEEL / Artist CHARLES BRADLEY WARREN / Street 233 RIDGE AVE. / City BEN AVON, PGH 2. State PA." and along the left margin "A.A.P. - 45th Annual Exhibit".
MarksFront bottom proper left corner of the plywood has rectangular paper label with typed black text "HALF SIZE MODEL OF SCULPTURE FOR / UNITED STEEL WORKERS BUILDING / CARSON STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA. / D. RODERICK JONES, ARCHITECT CHARLES BRADLEY WARREN, SCULPTOR".
Historical NotesHalf size model of sculpture for United Steel Workers building on Carson Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Charles Bradley Warren. Charles Bradley Warren worked in the Pittsburgh area from the mid-1930s until the 1960s. Among his works are the Fort Duquesne marker at Point State Park, capitals for the Frick Fine Arts Museum, bas reliefs for a several schools (Stevens Elementary and Prospect Union, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places). Warren, born in 1903 and raised in Ben Avon, studied engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology, but his interest in sculpture led him to seek a degree at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He went on to become a prominent sculptor in the Pittsburgh area and beyond. His style often used allegorical figures to represent the purpose of the building it was displayed on. In addition to his sculptures on buildings he also did some free standing stone murals. He was a founder of the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, which had its first annual show in 1935, and a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. He died in 1967 at the age of 63.
Related institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Related institution
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
Related institution
Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors
Related person
D. Roderick Jones
On View
Not on view
c. 1989
1905-1915