White Factory
Artist
Niles Spencer
(American, 1893 - 1952)
Date1928
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 20 x 25 5/8 in. (50.8 x 65.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 x 30 3/4 in. (63.5 x 78.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 x 30 3/4 in. (63.5 x 78.1 cm)
ClassificationsModern art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2227
Terms
- Factory
- Trees
- White
- Black
- Gray
- Brown
- Cubism
On View
On viewLabel TextNiles Spencer American, 1893–1952 White Factory, 1928 Oil on canvas With detachment and discipline, Niles Spencer transforms an urban landscape into a spare collection of flat shapes and patterns, a massive, man-made still life. Muted grays and browns add to the coolness and silence of this unpopulated industrial scene. Like fellow Precisionist painter Charles Sheeler, Spencer admired the purity and simplicity of factory and skyscraper architecture. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, founded in 1929, featured White Factory that same year in its first American art exhibition, celebrating Spencer and 18 other living artists. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2227