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Charles #Sheeler Interior 1926 Oil and fabricated chalk on linen 84.1 × 56.2 cm

Charles #Sheeler River Rouge Plant 1932 Although the (Ford) plant had experienced severe labor disputes in the early years of the Depression, Sheeler repressed the human dimension of manufacturing work and focused instead on the factory as a paradigm of modern rationality and order. For Sheeler, American factories were the contemporary equivalent of the cathedral, “our substitute,” he said, “for religious experience.” Oil and pencil on canvas 51.9 × 61.9 cm