Elsie Driggs

Elsie Driggs (1898, 1992) was an American Precisionist painter best known for her iconic 1927 work 'Pittsburg,' a monumental depiction of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Mill that became a landmark of American modernism. Trained at the Art Students League in New York, she was one of the few women prominently associated with the Precisionist movement, celebrated for her crisp, geometric renderings of industrial America. Later in her career she shifted toward more lyrical and abstract subjects, though her early industrial works remain her most acclaimed contributions to American art history.