Detroit Industry Mural Detail Diego Rivera

This is Detroit Industry, part of a large mural by Diego Rivera 1932-3, showing Ford's famous 1932 V8 engine production line. The jigsaw covers the central lower-half of the large N-wall mural. The image has a very complex structure, making it difficult to re-imagine, with layered scenes woven together with conveyor belts. It is a grid cut with the full range of pieces - nonesies to foursies.

This mural is photographed in very high resolution on Google Arts and an in-depth analysis was featured on BBC4 radio series ‘Moving Pictures’.

In 1927, the Ford Motor Company’s many innovations included the revolutionary automated car assembly line and vertically integrated manufacturing. Rivera had months of unfettered access to the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn and wrought it into 27 murals, covering four walls and three levels of the courtyard at the Detroit Institute of Art. The monumental and initially notorious murals were painted against a background of layoffs and industrial unrest in which five workers had recently been killed. De Rivera portrayed the worker heroically & idealistically believed technological advances would liberate workers from drudgery.

Artist: Diego Rivera
Date: 2021
Brand: Pomegranate
Material: Cardboard
Nationality: USA
Pieces: 1000
Size 29x20in
Theme: Work, Factory, Car, USA, 20thC Art, Art Deco
Jigsaw Title: Detroit Industry