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Carl Austin Weiss Sr. (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935) was an American physician who allegedly assassinated U.S. Senator Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935. Career [ edit ]
Articles and categories related to notable artists presently or previously from Pittsburgh The main article for this category is List of people from Pittsburgh . For more information, see Culture of Pennsylvania .
In the early 1990s, while working as the art director for In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, he co-founded the Industrial Arts Co-op. The activist collective experimented with trash or junk art, a subset of found object art made from objects and materials that have been thrown away. The group broke into abandoned buildings, mostly steel mills, where ...
The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.The museum was originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was formerly located at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Three murals were commissioned for the courtrooms under the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture and installed in 1936 and 1937: Steel Industry by Howard Cook; Pittsburgh Panorama by Stuyvesant Van Veen; and Modern Justice by Kindred McLeary. A 1972 survey found that Modern Justice had been removed. It remains lost today. [3]
Robert L. Qualters, Jr. (born March 13, 1934) [1] is an American painter, installation artist and printmaker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.His work encompasses traditional painting, as well as murals, and collaborations with other Pittsburgh-based artists across several disciplines.
On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Long was an extremely popular and influential politician at the time, and his death eliminated a possible 1936 presidential bid against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The design for Thaw Hall came from Henry Hornbostel's winning submission, termed the "Acropolis Plan", for a 1907 national competition to design a new campus for the University of Pittsburgh which was moving from its Observatory Hill campus to its current location in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Hornbostel's plan was begun in 1908 with ...