Article Link: Painting alludes to Pittsburgh’s working class

Here inPittsburgh you still run across steps like those in the painting and ”paper streets”, streets that only exist on paper accessible only by foot.  

 

Roy Hilton was new to town when he painted “Winter Day” in the late 1920s. As with many realist artists here, he was smitten with the rolling urban landscape even as it was transformed under a blanket of snow. “Winter Day” incorporates the traditional elements of a picturesque Pittsburgh scene: hillside houses, a bridge, a flight of city steps.

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