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List of famous Pittsburghers

February 16, 2011

Botany Hall and Phipps Conservatory with University of Pittsburgh beyond

Greeting cards of my silly ink drawings of Pittsburgh are here. They are usually in stock at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts shop as well as Visit Pittsburgh at 5th Avenue Place downtown.

I now offer 8 1/2 x 11″ prints on archival paper of my ink drawings here.

In 2016 The Duquesne Club purchased a 22″ X 30″ print of my newest drawing of Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh  drawing from the artist. The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh previously purchased 8 1/2 x 11″ prints of this print for their archive and offices.

I print this list on the back of my series of greeting cards of my “silly ink drawings of Pittsburgh”.  Most recent additions are environmental author Edward Abbey and book editor and publisher Margaret McEldery, whose obituary in both the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the New York Times caught my eye. The theme that most interested Abbey was the struggle for personal liberty against the totalitarian techno-industrial state, with wilderness being the backdrop in which this struggle took place.

64 Famous People of Pittsburgh and the Region

People on my list were either born and grew up here (most), or were simply born here and really did not spend any time at all as their families moved when they were very young (Gertrude Stein and Martha Graham). Or they were not born here but had significant career experiences here like Willa Cather who lived in Pittsburgh for 11 years. She came to Pittsburgh in 1895, upon graduation from the University of Nebraska. She often referred to Pittsburgh as the “birthplace” of her writing career.

Edward Abbey, Derrick Bell, George Benson, Nellie Bly, Andrew Carnegie, Rachel Carson, Mary Cassatt, Willa Cather, Perry Como, Michael Chabon, Annie Dillard, Mike Ditka, Billy Eckstine, Margaret K. Elderry, Richard Florida, Stephen Foster, Henry Clay Frick, Jeff Goldblum, Martha Graham, Walt Harper, Samuel Hazo, H.J. Heinz, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Margaret Hodges, John Kane, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Michael Keaton, Gene Kelly, Henry Mancini, Dan Marino, George Marshall, Rob Marshall, Lorin Maazel, David McCullough, Andrew Mellon, Larry Mellon, Paul Mellon, Richard B. Mellon, Richard K. Mellon, Thomas Mellon, Joe Montana, Joe Nameth, Evelyn Nesbit, Paul O’Neill, Phillip Pearlstein, Henry Phipps, Nathaniel Philbrick, Duncan Phillips, Fred Rogers, John Roebling, George Romero, Jonas Salk, David O. Selznick, Thomas Starzl, Gertrude Stein, Jimmy Stewart, Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Unitas, Bobby Vinton, Andy Warhol, Frank Webb, George Westinghouse, John Edgar Wideman, August Wilson

 

 

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Artist in Pittsburgh born and raised in Vermont, Lake Champlain Islands  & Stowe.

My own artwork and prints  can be purchased directly from me.

My vintage Schenley Park Illustrated Map,  is very popular. It is carried at Heinz History Center Shop. Sales of the map  help in keeping my art supplies replenished.

Some of my prints and cards are available at prints at Casey Droege’s Small Mall shop in Lawrenceville as well as her satellite space in Wilkinsburg. In addition some of my work is available at Firebox Art Studios LCC in Carnegie, PA and Dovecote in Aspinwall.

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