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Slug, from the series grass, peonie, bum. © Maisie Cousins.

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"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

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Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

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Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

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saw this abomination on the road a few weeks ago

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Elsie Driggs was inspired to make this painting by a childhood memory of Pittsburgh’s steel mills. Returning twenty years later to capture the scene, she initially tried to paint it from inside the mill. The owners thought the factory floor was no place for a woman, though, and management worried that she might be a labor agitator or industrial spy. Today the painting may seem to warn of the dangers of industrial pollution, but Driggs did not have an oppositional agenda. She ended up basing the work on drawings she made from a hill above her boardinghouse, later writing that she stared at the mills and told herself: “‘This shouldn’t be beautiful. But it is.’ And it was all I had, so I drew it.” See the work now in Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960.

[Elsie Driggs (1895–1992), Pittsburgh, 1927. Oil on canvas, 34 ¼ × 40 ¼ in. (87 × 102.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Accession number 31.177]