Portraits of power in 1940

The first time Fortune ran a portfolio on power, the world looked very different. Fortune commissioned artist Robert Sheeler to paint a portrait of American muscle as it stood in December 1940. These six paintings were the result.



1939 Primitive Power, (The Regis Collection, Minneapolis, MN)

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