Steel-Croton (1953)
Charles Sheeler
oil on canvas
Charles Sheeler is among a group of artists known as precisionists, who depict machine-age monuments of America in their art. The piece is a layered, dizzied depiction of a steel-span bridge, with a composition based on French cubism. This layering, almost like a multiple exposure, creates a feeling of fluidity, which was largely influenced by the mindset of the time it was created - as the country's industrial growth was exponential.
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