Decade After Big Steel's Demise, a City Lost in Transition
By JAMES DAO http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/national/02LETT.html?pagewanted=all
Pittsburgh
At the Carnegie Museum of Art, a series of paintings by Aaron H. Gorson
capture what many people still consider the quintessential images of this city
that industry built. A coal barge plies murky waters. A blast furnace scorches
the dark heavens like a supernova. Smoke-belching stacks shroud the horizon in
brown haze.
But the paintings are a ce
