Oil painting titled the Birth of the Atomic Age
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1957
- Description
Oil painting on masonite (wooden) board. Depicts a dark basement room with a group of men in suits surrounding two desks on left. On right is large wooden structure filled with black bricks. Three men crouch on top of the wooden structure, one man in lab coat stands by its side.
- Creator
Sheahan, Gary, b. 1920 (artist)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Visual works (works)
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Weil, George
University of Chicago
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear physicists
Nuclear reaction
Scientists
Experimentation - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Unframed Height: (18.5 in)Unframed Width: (35.5 in)Oil paint (paint)Masonite (TM)Painting (image-making)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Copyright undetermined.
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- Chicago citation style
- Sheahan, Gary, b. 1920 (artist). Oil painting titled the Birth of the Atomic Age. 1957. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1668. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sheahan, Gary, b. 1920 (artist), (1957) Oil painting titled the Birth of the Atomic Age. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1668
- MLA citation style
- Sheahan, Gary, b. 1920 (artist). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1668>.