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Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company

1927
Not on view
A realistic painter as well as a photographer, Sheeler rarely failed to uncover harmonious coherence in the forms of indigenous American architecture. His series of photographs of the Ford plant near Detroit was commissioned by the automobile company through an advertising agency. Widely reproduced in Europe and America in the 1920s, this commanding image of technological utopia became a monument to the transcendent power of industrial production in the early modern age.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company
  • Artist: Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
  • Date: 1927
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.8 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1100.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © The Lane Collection
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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