Published in conjunction with the exhibition Steel: Pittsburgh Drawings by Craig McPherson, presented at the Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 8-June 8, 2008. Contemporary artist Craig McPherson (American, b. 1948) works in the urban-realist tradition, producing finely detailed, beautifully atmospheric renderings of urban and industrial environments. His preference for urban subject matter and unpopulated shadowy night...