Beehive Coke Oven at Night: The Coke Ovens at Vintondale
Item
Title
Beehive Coke Oven at Night: The Coke Ovens at Vintondale
Creator
Martha Cowles Davis
Brooklyn, New York 1895-1983 Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
Brooklyn, New York 1895-1983 Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
Date
1936
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
24 x 36 in.
Description
Vintondale, was founded as a company town for the Vinton Colliery Company. Coke ovens were constructed at Vintonville in the early 1900s. Eventually, 152 coke ovens were operating at the site. “Long rows of beehive ovens from which flame is bursting and dense clouds of smoke issuing, making the sky dark. By night the scene is rendered indescribably vivid by these numerous burning pits. The beehive ovens make the entire region of coke manufacture one of dulled sky, cheerless and unhealthful” (Charles van Hise recalling a trip through western Pennsylvania in 1911).
A resident of Ebensburg, Davis was an active member of the Allied Artists of Johnstown and the Puzzletown Artists Guild, a three county organization headquartered in Blue Knob, Pennsylvania
A resident of Ebensburg, Davis was an active member of the Allied Artists of Johnstown and the Puzzletown Artists Guild, a three county organization headquartered in Blue Knob, Pennsylvania
Identifier
EMS062
Rights
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