Etching, "The Valley of Work," Monongahela River Valley, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1923
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Industrial designer Otto Kuhler's etchings of begrimed industry sprang from an optimistic response to technology. This gritty, smoke-plumed landscape is Homestead, Pennsylvania, whose steel mills led to the creation of such structures as the George Washington Bridge. The same optimism led to Kuhler's colorful streamlined designs for the Milwaukee, Lehigh, and other railroads in the 1930s.
Industrial designer Otto Kuhler's etchings of begrimed industry sprang from an optimistic response to technology. This gritty, smoke-plumed landscape is Homestead, Pennsylvania, whose steel mills led to the creation of such structures as the George Washington Bridge. The same optimism led to Kuhler's colorful streamlined designs for the Milwaukee, Lehigh, and other railroads in the 1930s.
Artifact
Print (Visual work)
Date Made
1923
Subject Date
1923
Creators
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2001.68.10.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Etching (Printing process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 15.938 in
Width: 22.75 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in pencil left to right on bottom border: April 1972 $(__) / The valley of Work, Plate Destroyed / A1282 / Ea. 50 / 1924 Signed under lower right edge of etching edge: Otto Kuhler
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