Preston Dickinson
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William Preston Dickinson (September 9, 1889 - November 25, 1930) was an American modern artist, best known for his paintings of industrial subjects in the Precisionist style.
Dickinson was one of the first American artists to focus on industrial subjects. He was working in the Precisionist mode by at least 1915, and his depictions of factories and granaries predate those of fellow Precisionists Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth. Dickinson was motivated by a reverence for the benefits of technology and industry to humanity, as well as an interest in its formal qualities. Many of his industrial scenes were imaginary (such as Factory (c. 1920), though his work later shifted towards a greater realism.
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