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Across the Tracks
193420th century
90.8 x 125.4 cm (35 3/4 x 49 3/8 in.)
Niles Spencer (Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1893 - 1952, Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania) Primary
Object Type:
painting
Artist Nationality:
North America, American
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, 1991
Accession Number:
1991.327
An industrial complex appears frozen in utter silence and stillness. In Across the Tracks, Niles Spencer presents an industrial scene composed of simple geometric forms deriving from the cylinder and cube. The artist has removed all that is superfluous, which, along with his application of monochromatic grays and browns, shortens the painting’s field of depth
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