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Painting of piled machine parts and scrap in pink, green, orange and blue.

Martha McMillan Roberts: Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto “graveyards” where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in

2014

Acrylic on canvas

180 × 220 cm

Painting of scrap metal and saw blades in red, pink, yellow and blue.

Anne Rosener: Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Outworn metal articles of every kind lie in a neighborhood junkyard pending segregation and shipment to a steel mill where this valuable scrap will be processed into war materials

2014

Acrylic on canvas

150 × 190 cm

Wide painting of scrap pipes and a fence in green, brown and yellow.

Arthur S. Siegel: Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

2014

Acrylic on canvas

100 × 130 cm

Painting of a pile of license plates in grey and black.

Arthur S. Siegel: Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

2014

Acrylic on canvas

120 × 100 cm

Painting of two figures in yellow jackets among scrap metal, in cyan, green and brown.

John Collier: Fort Kent, Maine (vicinity). Salvage drive for scrap metal

2015

Acrylic on canvas

177.8 × 210.8 cm

Painting of a figure in an orange dress reading amid scrap, in pale green and lilac.

David Bransby: War Production Board launches auto graveyard program. W.F. Breuer, regional representative of the auto salvage section, War Production Board, starts preliminary survey of jaloppies available for war production use. Miss Jane McCullough of the WPB local office takes notes

Acrylic on canvas

190 × 152 cm

Painting of a heap of scrap metal in mauve, blue and orange.

Ann Rosener: San Francisco, California. Pile of salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite Company. In the foreground are cans of a type which cannot successfully be detinned

2017

Acrylic on canvas

122 × 152.5 cm

Painting of piled license plates in green, red and blue.

Arthur S. Siegel: Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

2018

Acrylic on canvas

122 × 152.5 cm

Wide painting of machine parts under a sign, in blue, orange and red.

Paul Vanderbilt: Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Part of an automobile junk yard on Ridge Avenue

2018

Acrylic on canvas

190 × 350 cm

Painting of the front of a car with round headlights, in red, blue and pale pink.

Marjory Collins: Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Car dismantled of saleable parts before burning it in a wholesale junkyard

2018

Acrylic on canvas

150 × 250 cm

Wide painting of gears and wheels in pale green, blue and orange.

Ann Rosener: Salvage. Farm scrap. Scrap today, armaments tomorrow. Collected from dozens of Michigan farms, this pile of valuable scrap metal awaits transport to a steel mill where it will be melted down into weapons for America’s fighting men

2018

Acrylic on canvas

100 × 140 cm