Summer, New Castle, PA, 1934

Painting

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Drexel Founding Collection

Name/Title

Summer, New Castle, PA, 1934

Entry/Object ID

1992

Category

Painting

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Margaret Atkinson Loughborough-Loughborough Biddle Robbins

Notes

Date: 1969 Means of Accession: gift Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Edwinston Robbins.

Made/Created

Artist

Miles Jefferson Early

Date made

1934

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall Dimensions: Framed

Height

29 in

Width

35 in

Dimension Description

Canvas Dimensions: Unframed

Height

24 in

Width

30 in

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.

Exhibition

Curator Pick of the Month

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Curator Pick of the Month

Label

The heat of summer is palpable in this painting of New Castle, PA with the bright sun shining through the trees on the dirt road leading towards the mining buildings to the right. New Castle, PA was a leader in tin plate manufacturing in early 1900s. The painting, along with two others depicting New Castle, was owned by Col. Anthony Biddle, the grandson of Anthony J. Drexel. The artist Miles Jefferson Early (1886-1957) was active in Illinois and is best known for his landscape paintings.

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

New Castle, PA was the leader in tin plate manufacturing in the early 1900s, and now is known for fireworks, Pyrotecnico.

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

New York Times, 28 Feb 2001: Edwinston Robbins, 96, who retired as a colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 1957 after World War II service in Europe, Panama and the Far East, died Friday in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. From 1957 to 1969, Mr. Robbins, based in Paris, was as deputy director of Lockheed's aircraft operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.