Turkey Run, PA, coal breaker
Artist
Louis Ribak
(American, born Lithuania, 1903 - 1979)
Date1936-1941
Place DepictedTurkey Run, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Mediumtempera on paper
DimensionsImage: 19 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (49.5 × 74.9 cm)
Frame: 30 × 40 × 1 3/4 in. (76.2 × 101.6 × 4.4 cm)
Frame: 30 × 40 × 1 3/4 in. (76.2 × 101.6 × 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift in honor of Dr. Ralph and Mary H. Jones, 2024
Object number2024.12.7
DescriptionA watercolor landscape painting depicting the Appalachian coal mining industry.eMuseum Notes
A gray mountain landscape dominates the picture plane. Lean-to structures ramble along the hillside while gray smoke pours into the sky. A locomotive, likely hauling coal, cuts through the picture plane along the middle of the mountain valley.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- mining
- coal
- trains (vehicle groupings)
