{"id":4024,"date":"2014-01-29T08:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:07:02","slug":"art-exhibit-spotlights-regions-iron-steel-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"Art exhibit spotlights region&#8217;s iron, steel heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-28-at-9.49.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4026\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-28 at 9.49.25 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-28-at-9.49.25-AM.png\" width=\"194\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Paintings, sculpture will be displayed at Penn State&#8217;s Great Valley campus<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An exhibit with some artistic and historic heft will open on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Henry Gallery at Penn State\u2019s Great Valley campus.<\/p>\n<p>The unique iron and steel heritage of Chester County and the region set the background for an exhibit, which is entitled \u201cPennsylvania: Made in Steel.\u201d An opening reception for the exhibit will be held Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>A selection of about 30 paintings, publicly exhibited for the first time from the Coatesville National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum\u2019s recent acquisition of original works by Industrial artist Klaus Grutzka, will be on display through March 14.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit focuses on paintings Grutzka did of Lukens, Phoenix, and Bethlehem Steel companies and their surrounding communities in the 1970s. . Grutzka (1922 \u2013 2011) was an artist in the Industrial Precisionist School of art known for its sharply defined, austere and simplified forms.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit also includes steel sculptures by three local artists: Karen Delaney, David Haines, and Steve Blackburn of the Chester County Art Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Henry Gallery is located in the Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley, 30 E. Swedesford Rd., Malvern, and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paintings, sculpture will be displayed at Penn State&#8217;s Great Valley campus An exhibit with some artistic and historic heft will open on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Henry Gallery at Penn State\u2019s Great Valley campus. The unique iron and steel heritage of Chester County and the region set the background for an exhibit, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[142,2690,2687,2046,2689,2688],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-chester-county-art-association","tag-david-haines","tag-henry-gallery-at-penn-states-great-valley-campus","tag-karen-delaney","tag-klaus-grutzka","tag-national-iron-and-steel-heritage-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}