American Landscape

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American Landscape is a 1930 Precisionist painting by Charles Sheeler that depicts an industrial Ford Motor Company plant with crisp, geometric clarity and minimal human presence.

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American Landscape canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Precisionist painting
painting
artisticStyle crisp, hard-edged forms
geometric abstraction
basedOn Charles Sheeler’s photographs of the Ford River Rouge Plant
colorPalette blues
browns
grays
muted tones
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Charles Sheeler NERFINISHED
creatorNationality American
creatorOccupation painter
photographer
depictionStyle highly controlled composition
photographic clarity
sharp linear perspective
depicts Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant NERFINISHED
conveyors
factory buildings
industrial landscape
minimal human presence
railroad tracks
smokestacks
waterway
depictsLocation Dearborn, Michigan NERFINISHED
depictsOrganization Ford Motor Company NERFINISHED
era interwar period
genre industrial art
landscape painting
hasPart factory chimneys
industrial buildings
storage tanks
waterfront structures
inception 1930
languageOfTitle English
movement Precisionism NERFINISHED
notableCharacteristic absence of visible workers
cool, detached viewpoint
emphasis on order and clarity
reduction of detail to simplified geometric forms
subjectMatter American industrial modernity
machine-age architecture
theme American industrial power
modernization of the United States
relationship between technology and landscape

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Charles Sheeler notableWork American Landscape
Precisionism hasNotableWork American Landscape