Louise Pershing Monumental Oil Painting "Turbine Monster"

Item Details

Louise Pershing (Pennsylvania, 1904-1986)
Turbine Monster
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower right
Signed, titled, and inscribed to verso

A monumental oil painting on canvas titled Turbine Monster by American artist Louise Pershing (1904-1986). This work features an abstract loose rendering of a turbine against a black ground. Signed ‘Pershing’ to the lower right, the work is also signed, titled, and inscribed to the verso. It is presented in a black painted wood frame.

Louise Pershing was the niece of US Army General John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing (1860-1948). She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia as well as the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh. Most notably, she studied under celebrated abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman in Cape Cod. Louise was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She had a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1945.

One of Pershing’s largest works can be found along Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Executed in 1974, The Flow sculpture was produced from COR-TEN steel, a type of steel invented by the U.S. Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. Inspired by a visit to their open hearth, the sculpture is an abstract depiction of steelmaking.

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Condition

- foxing, accretion spots, and drip stains scattered throughout composition; small puncture to upper left area of canvas; small dimples present to center left and upper right area of canvas; wear to frame includes small chips, stains, scratches, and finish loss scattered throughout.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; canvas size measures approximately 46" W x 60" H.

Item #

18DCC700-164