The term precisionism was first coined by Alfred H. Barr who was the director of Museum of Modern Art in the mid-1920s. Precisionism refers to a style of painting that existed in early twentieth century that had scenes of industrial architecture or objects. The subject matter of these paintings was the new American landscape. This included the paintings of skyscrapers, bridges, grain elevators and factories. This kind of art form was also called “Cubist-Realism”, where the pictures depicted a combination of geometrical shapes in bright and clear colours.