Ruehl Frederick Heckman

"Racing the Sun" is a rare surviving oil on stretched canvas painting by Ruehl Frederick Heckman, created for the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company. During the 1930s Heckman executed a series of five paintings for this storied calendar company, all featuring bold aviation progress and industrial themes. These works ponder the collision of the industrial revolution's streamlined machine age aesthetic with previous generations traditional and more pastoral ways.