Title
"Birth of power"
Subject
Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Description
"The Birth of Power"
This colorful mural from the masterly brush of Willy Pogany greets thousands who annually visit the Schoellkopf Station of the Niagara Falls Power Company.
This allegorical painting tells in vivid and powerful tone, but with eerie lightness, the romantic birth story of humanity's modern servant—electrical power.
Torrents of energy tumble into the eddying pool of human waves from which emerge two poles imparting the spark of life into the giant genie—POWER.
—Edward Dean Adams, 1927
This colorful mural from the masterly brush of Willy Pogany greets thousands who annually visit the Schoellkopf Station of the Niagara Falls Power Company.
This allegorical painting tells in vivid and powerful tone, but with eerie lightness, the romantic birth story of humanity's modern servant—electrical power.
Torrents of energy tumble into the eddying pool of human waves from which emerge two poles imparting the spark of life into the giant genie—POWER.
—Edward Dean Adams, 1927
Creator
Willy Pogany
Source
Edward Dean Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918. Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Niagara Falls Power Company, 1927. No other information is provided other than the following caption:
Rights
Type
Image
Photocopies
Identifier
LIB-005_0500
Coverage
Niagara Falls (N.Y.)
Is Part Of
Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901
LIB-005
Collection
Tags
Citation
Willy Pogany, “"Birth of power",” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed December 19, 2024, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/95453.