{"id":277224,"date":"2026-09-02T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277224\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:04:11","slug":"history-center-to-host-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277224\/","title":{"rendered":"History center to host book launch &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirtondailytimes.com\/news\/community\/\" class=\"article_cat_label\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fire-in-the-Night-Sky-464x300.png\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Contributed<br \/>\nBOOK LAUNCH \u2014 Author Maxwell King will discuss his new book, &#8220;Fire in the Night Sky: The Steel Mill Paintings of Aaron Gorson,&#8221; Sept. 22 at the the Senator John Heinz History Center.\n<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Discover the life and work of pioneering industrial landscape artist Aaron Gorson from author and philanthropist Maxwell King as he shares insights from his new book, \u201cFire in the Night Sky: The Steel Mill Paintings of Aaron Gorson,\u201d from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 during a book launch event at the Senator John Heinz History Center, the Smithsonian\u2019s home in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Lithuania, Gorson came to Philadelphia in 1890 at 18 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before continuing his studies in Paris. He later settled in Pittsburgh, where he painted powerful and dramatic nighttime scenes of the city\u2019s steel mills until the early 1920s. <\/p>\n<p>Featuring 39 Gorson paintings, \u201cFire in the Night Sky\u201d places his art within the larger story of Pittsburgh\u2019s steel industry, revealing how the industrial and technological achievements of the era transformed Pittsburgh and the world. It is the first complete biography of the man who captured Pittsburgh\u2019s fiery steel mills on paper. <\/p>\n<p>King also is the author of the New York Times bestseller \u201cThe Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers\u201d and \u201cAmerican Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane.\u201d He is the former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and president of the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined by Andy Masich, history center president and CEO, who will preview the museum\u2019s upcoming exhibition on the life and artwork of Gorson, which will open on Nov. 14. <\/p>\n<p>Following the program, King will sign copies of \u201cFire in the Night Sky.\u201d Books will be available for purchase at the event. <\/p>\n<p>For information and to purchase tickets, visit heinzhistorycenter.org\/events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community Contributed BOOK LAUNCH \u2014 Author Maxwell King will discuss his new book, &#8220;Fire in the Night Sky:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-277224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}