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Steel Smelting, Bessemer Process - 1910 by Thorsten H. F. Lindberg
Photo CreditStanley Staniski Photography
Steel Smelting, Bessemer Process - 1910
Photo CreditStanley Staniski Photography

Steel Smelting, Bessemer Process - 1910

Artist
Year1939
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions54 × 59 1/2 in. (137.2 × 151.1 cm)
framed: 61 × 67 in. (154.9 × 170.2 cm)
Credits WPA, Federal Art Project, 1935 - 1943
Location
  • Interior scene with 5 men and steel smelting machines; 2 men left and center foreground watch steel smelting machine and hot molten steel; 2 men at right background watch steel being poured; man right background turns wheel on machine, as does man at left foreground.  Barrels in foreground.  Composed in reds, browns, grays, in wooden frame with "Steel Smelting, Bessemer Process - 1910" painted in "gold", centered.