Tapping the Furnace
Object number2007.6.30
Artist
Jess Hager
Date1980
Mediumwatercolor paint, foam board, illustration board
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionMulti-colored watercolor painting, primarily in shades of orange. Impressionistic in style, showing worker in white coat at far left, working with molten material, which is pouring out into a container below. Illustration board is adhered to foam board. Dimensions23.75 x 17.5 in. (60.3 x 44.5 cm)Signed"Jess Hager 1980" at lower right.
InscriptionsOn reverse of foam board: "#5", circled.
Historical NotesPurchased from artist Jess Hager, through World West Galleries, Washington, PA.Label TextTapping the Furnace, by Jess Hager, watercolor, 1980 This image likely captures the interior workings of Edgar Thomson, the U.S. Steel mill operating today in nearby Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Related institution
United States Steel Corporation
On View
Not on view
