Hobson Pittman (1900-1972)
Heavy Furnace, 1933
Hobson Pittman’s brooding Heavy Furnace (1933) conveys not the dramatic display of industrial production, but rather the bleak isolation that was often the condition of modern industrial life. The artist grew up in rural North Carolina, moving to Philadelphia in 1918. He attended Penn State University (1921-22) and Columbia University (1924-25), before enrolling in Carnegie Tech in 1926. In 1931, he began what would be a long teaching career at Philadelphia area institutions, including the Academy, where he taught between 1949 and 1972. Some of his canvases convey a mood of “strange nostalgic fantasy,” informed by the moody memory of his Southern childhood and an enthusiasm for the Victorian era. The industrial subject is an unusual one for Pittman.
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