As can be seen from the final image below (showing the whole of the main panel), a bright sunlight was streaming through the glass ceiling on the day of our visit to Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry frescoes in the Detroit Institute of Arts, making many of our images of the north wall unusable and degrading the quality of the few included here. They nonetheless show the stunning level of detail Rivera went to despite the massive size of the work. These are all of the main panel, the bottom third of which shows construction of the eight-cylinder engine for the Model B (probably).
For more information, see also: Infant In The Bulb Of A Plant (East) | Building The Model B (South) |Life & Death (West)
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Top centre …
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Bottom centre …
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Bottom left …
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Shot of the main panel on the north wall …
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Video showing construction process at Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, just outside Detroit
