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As one of Seurat's final paintings, The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe demonstrates beautifully the principles of Seurat's own Neo-Impressionist movement. His systematic application of dots in colors carefully chosen according to laws of chromatic harmony results in unparalleled luminosity.
Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County , near Elverson, Pennsylvania , is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation , whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.
Portrait of Seurat by Maximilien Luce. This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism. [1] The listing follows the 1980 book Georges Seurat and uses its catalogue numbers. [2]
Seurat completed the painting of Bathers at Asnières in 1884, at 24 years old. He applied to the jury of the Salon of the same year to have the work exhibited there, only to be rejected. The Bathers continued to puzzle many of Seurat’s contemporaries, and the picture would only be widely acclaimed many years after the artist's death (age 31).
The site is now the location of the Wind Creek Bethlehem casino hotel. Five blast furnaces were left standing, including cowper stoves. The plant was intended to be incorporated into The National Museum of Industrial History, however the bankruptcy of Bethlehem Steel and the sale of assets to ISG put that on hold.
John S. Perry started building wood stoves in 1843. [2] After becoming bankrupt in 1860, Perry secured a loan in the amount of $13,000 to buy the company in 1862. [2] Perry reorganized the company to become Albany Stove Works in 1869. It employed nearly 1,200 people in the Albany region. [2] Perry Stove Manufacturing Company
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District.The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Woods–Evertz Stove Company Historic District, also known as General Wesco Stove Company, is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. The district encompasses six contributing buildings associated with a large cast iron stove manufacturer.