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Maxwell King
Books by Maxwell King
Fire in the Night Sky
The Steel Mill Paintings of Aaron Gorson
By Maxwell King
Foreword by Eric Widing
Aaron Harry Gorson painted powerful and dramatic night scenes of Pittsburgh’s steel mills in the early 1900s. A pioneer industrial landscape artist, Gorson was partial to the nighttime beauty of industrial Pittsburgh and the magic of the glowing streams of molten iron and steel flowing from the b...
Walter Beinecke and the Reimagining of Nantucket
How Preservation, Conservation, and Redevelopment Transformed the "Gray Lady"
Foreword by Maxwell King
Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into economic torpor. Its population declined and many of its homes and local businesses fell into disrepair.
In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke, a lifelong summer resident and an heir to the S&H...
In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke, a lifelong summer resident and an heir to the S&H...