In May 1954, Joy Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Fortune magazine commissioned seven celebrated artists to create visual interpretations of its latest mining equipment—the continuous miner machine for automated coal excavation. The paintings and prints were first published in Fortune magazine and, a few months later, gifted to the Carnegie Institute when they also began a frenetic tour and publicity campaign around the country. The Continuous Miner series of paintings and prints brings into focus how the Pittsburgh region has been shaped both materially and culturally through a nexus of extractive economies, philanthropic capital, and art institutions and practices.

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