Upper Deck

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Upper Deck

painting by Sheeler

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Precisionism
…and sharply clear—as in Sheeler’s Upper Deck (1929). The forms chosen in these works are frequently geometric, either inherently, as in the cylinders of the cowls and motors of Upper Deck and the grain elevators of Demuth’s My Egypt (1927), or because the artist exaggerates these qualities through Cubist techniques.
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…and sharply clear—as in Sheeler’s Upper Deck (1929). The forms chosen in these works are frequently geometric, either inherently, as in the cylinders of the cowls and motors of Upper Deck and the grain elevators of Demuth’s My Egypt (1927), or because the artist exaggerates these qualities through Cubist techniques.
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