In this painting, Aaron Henry Gorson portrays a favorite subject of his: the mills of Pittsburgh, situated along the riverbanks.
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Opening this Saturday, Monet and the Modern City explores artists' response to the growth of industry in urban centers from the mid-1800s to -1900s. See three of Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge paintings, along with many other artists' depictions of the power and promise of modernity.
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Aaron Henry Gorson, Pittsburgh at Night, 1920. Carnegie Museum of Art. Gift of Milton Porter.
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