Untitled (Autocar Company)
c. 1925
Medium
etching
Dimensions
image: 264 x 244 mm paper: 400 x 308 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.2580
Art Historical Context
Earl Horter's *Untitled (Autocar Company, created around 1925, is a etching that captures the industrial dynamism of early 20th-century America Horter, an American artist with Precisionism—a modernist movement celebrating the geometric precision and power of machines—depicts the Autocar Company, a pioneering truck manufacturer based in Pennsylvania. This untitled work, with its crisp image measuring 264 x 244 mm on a larger 400 x 308 mm, exemplifies the era's fascination with factories, vehicles, and urban progress during the Roaring Twenties. Etching, Horter's chosen medium, allowed for intr...