War Bride

I have always been intrigued by the old industrial aesthetic, which is part of the reason why I was drawn to Clarence Holbrook Carter's War Bride. Though I spent a long time observing the works of art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, this painting in a more dimly lit back corner of the gallery stuck out to me. In it, a young woman stands in a white dress and wedding veil in front of a vast open space resembling something of a factory floor. In the background, a red glow highlights the spectral figure against the cool lifeless grey of the series of machines in the background.