In 1927, Charles Sheeler was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit, then the world’s largest industrial complex....Over the next 2 decades the images inspired a number of other works in different media by Sheeler including one of his greatest masterpieces, Classic Landscape. Evoking the grandeur of classical Greek architecture, the painting has become one of the most widely reproduced and ...(http://arteverywhereus.org/Art-Gallery/id/33)