Revdocdrew your quotation is wonderfully true! That painting looks a lot like the fiery scenes produced by the Bessemer furnaces at McKeesport, Duquesne, and Braddock, PA. We could look right down into them from the adjacent hillsides. During WWII they went full blast day and night projecting great clouds of orange and black smoke high into the sky. At night the glow was visible above the horizon for miles and the grit fell in measureable layers on people & homes every hour. During the day those same clouds often totally blotted out the sun producing darkness at noon. Long before I knew what hell was all about I already had a fully formed image thereof.