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Across the Tracks
Across the Tracks

Across the Tracks

Primary (Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1893–Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, 1952)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1934
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 35 3/4 × 49 3/8 in. (90.8 × 125.4 cm)
Framed: 37 3/4 × 51 1/2 × 2 in. (95.9 × 130.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, 1991.327
Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object number1991.327
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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