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You Don’t Know Joe Sibbitt

Steve Justice Painting Title: You Don’t Know Joe Sibbitt Material: oil on canvas Size: 30x24 Year: 2013 “There never was a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself.” -- Andrew Carnegie Joe Sibbitt is a fictitious any-man in the blue-collar Pittsburgh I grew up in. Someone might actually know someone who knows him, since all Pittsburghers seem to be related by only 2-3 degrees of separation. The bigger-than-man machinery, the dirt, the rivers, the twinkling lights and the houses clinging to hillsides, were all things I grew up with and took for granted.
Title: You Don’t Know Joe Sibbitt
Material: oil on canvas
Size: 30×24
Year: 2013

“There never was a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself.” — Andrew Carnegie

Joe Sibbitt is a fictitious any-man in the blue-collar Pittsburgh I grew up in. Someone might actually know someone who knows him, since all Pittsburghers seem to be related by only 2-3 degrees of separation. The bigger-than-man machinery, the dirt, the rivers, the twinkling lights and the houses clinging to hillsides, were all things I grew up with and took for granted.