HARTSHORN STUDIOS
Industrial
Paintings & Etchings
Studio Location:
2342 Professor Avenue, Tremont 44113
Near Downtown Cleveland

216-403-2734
email:  robert_hartshorn@yahoo.com
Castle Cuyahoga
Industrial Gothic
photo-etching on paper,  47 x 39
Castle on the Cuyahoga
Industrial Gothic I
Industrial Valley
photo-etching on paper, 58 x 39
photo-etching on canvas,  94 x 37
Industrial Landscapes

Industrial landscapes capture
the rust, decay and strange
beauty of the Rust Belt. I am
fascinated by the vast scale of
these factories, foundries, power
plants, blast furnaces, silos,
tanks and cooling towers which
have a poetry and grandeur .
They are at once both ugly and
beautiful.

Cleveland's Flats

My approach to these
landscapes is to reveal the
sweeping embrace of whole
valleys of  manufacturing,
steelworks and smokestacks in
Cleveland's Industrial Flats
which appear today much as
they did a century ago. It is my
attempt to document the steel
industry's waning power here
before it disappears into rust
and scrap.

Photo-Etching

I employ a photo-etching
technique to interpret
industrial landscapes  because  
it brings out an historical and
timeless quality to my work.
The medium of photo-etching is
a digital process that begins
with photography and recreates
the etching and embossing
effects of manually printing on
canvas & paper.
Studio   (216) 403-2734
Insert the smokestack variations and the
new blue stacks and the 2 winter guardians
and the old night painting
photo-etching on paper, 39 x 58
Industrial Rail