Charles Sheeler, American, 1883–1965,
Ford Plant, River Rouge, Pulverizer Building, 1927; gelatin
silver print. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Lane
Collection.
Sheeler always admired functional and well-designed objects, whether
a Shaker chair or a Ford automobile. Of the Rouge, he wrote: “There
I was to find forms which looked right because they had been designed
with their utility in view, and in the successful fulfillment
of their purpose, it was inevitable that beauty would be attained." |
