Niles Spencer Original Vintage Mid Century American Precisionist Industrial Factory Machinery Geometric Composition Oil Painting

Spectacular original vintage industrial composition by American precisionist Niles Spencer (1893-1952). The painting is a later work by the artist, estimated at approximately 1950, and is a machine age industrial composition of precise arrangements of geometric patterns similar to the inner workings of an engine. The painting is an oil on Grumbacher NY canvas/ stretcher bars, and measures approximately 28.25" X 28.25", square. The painting is in very good original condition, with no observable flaws nor signs of previous restorative efforts. The painting is signed by the artist, verso on the canvas.

    Niles Spencer waa an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement. Spencer specialized in depicting urban and industrial landscapes with a focus on geometruc forms and architectural structures, reducing the scenes to precise arrangements of abstract patterns.

    Spencer's art often depicted urban and industrial scenes, including factories, sky scrapers, bridges, and city dwellings as well as landscapes of places such as Ogenquit and Provincetown.

    Spencer studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and was exposed to the avant-garde art scene in Greenwich Village after moving to New York in 1916. He was particularly influenced by Cezanne's explorations of geometric forms.

    Niles Soencer's art is part of the permanent collections in majir museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA. He received awards during his lifetime, and several posthumous exhibitions, including a major retrospective at MoMA in 1954, and another at the Whitney Muswum in 1990, drew significant attention to his work.

    From the 1949s onward, Spencer's style evolved further toward abstraction, creating increasingly complex compositions with simplified architectural forms. Spencer's later work shows a stronger influence of cubism, with hard-edged regions of largely unmodulated color, replacing the more realistic modeling of earlier works.

    Niles Spencer's paintings, void of people, often captured a stark beauty of modernity, reflecting a sense of detachment and objectivity towards the machine age.

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