An important figure in early 20th century American art, the painter and photographer Charles Sheeler was - along with Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)- the leading exponent of Precisionism, a style of architectural painting that combined the hi - tech aesthetics of Futurism with the sharp geometrics of Analytical Cubism in the depiction of factories, power stations, warehouses and other industrial plant, of the new technological age. (visual-arts-cork.com)
The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in American Art, by Emma Acker with Sue Canterbury, Adrian Daub, and Lauren Palmor, is published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / de Young in association with Yale University Press. (nybooks.com)
Other influences include exponents of American Precisionism of the 1930s, such as Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) and Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935). (visual-arts-cork.com)