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Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
  • Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
Mid-Century Oil On Canvas Signed Terry Daughtery Berlin Nevada, c 1970-1980
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The Piece

Title: The Guild – Mining Mill
Artist: Terry Daugherty
Medium: Oil on canvas
Viewpoint: From inside the machine shop, looking toward the mill
Location Depicted: Berlin, Nevada
Date of Painting: Likely late 20th century (circa 1970s–1980s)

This painting depicts the Berlin mining complex, viewed from within the machine shop toward the stamp mill structures. The architectural alignment, terrain, and mill configuration correspond directly with documented images of Berlin, Nevada.

Why Berlin, Nevada Is the Subject

The mill buildings shown in your reference image match the painting in several key ways:

→ Multiple connected wooden mill structures
→ Sloped ore-processing building with elevated framework
→ Arid high-desert landscape with sparse scrub
→ Perspective consistent with a machine shop interior, not an exterior viewpoint

The artist did not invent this scene. This is an observational painting, executed on site or from detailed study.

Historical Context of the Site (Relevant to the Artwork)

The Berlin Mine began operation in 1887 under the Cincinnati Mining Company. Early ore processing relied on nearby milling operations at Knickerbocker. After early failures and abandonment, Berlin was revived in the 1890s, culminating in the construction of a 30-stamp mill by the Nevada Company in 1898.

By 1905, Berlin supported a population of nearly 300. The mill complex expanded, incorporating equipment relocated from Knickerbocker and Pioneer mills. Labor unrest in 1907 led to another shutdown, followed by brief experimental reopenings, including a cyanide plant built by Alfred Smith between 1910–1914.

Industrial activity ceased permanently in the early 20th century. The mill structures survived largely intact until 1947, when the mill was dismantled.

Today, Berlin is preserved as part of Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, making it one of Nevada’s most significant preserved mining ghost towns.

Artistic Significance of the Viewpoint

What makes this painting particularly strong is where the artist chose to stand.

This is not a postcard view.
This is not romantic ruin imagery.

The vantage point is inside the machine shop, looking outward. That choice matters.

It places the viewer:
→ inside the labor space
→ within the machinery footprint
→ at human scale

The mill is not depicted as spectacle. It is depicted as infrastructure. The absence of figures reinforces the sense of abandonment, while the intact architecture speaks to endurance rather than decay.

This aligns with late 20th-century Western regional realism, where artists sought to document disappearing industrial landscapes before they were lost or overly romanticized.

The Guild Reference (Clarified)

“The Guild” noted on the reverse is almost certainly a reference to:
→ a regional artists’ guild
→ a cooperative exhibition space
→ or a juried group show

This was a common method of exhibition for Western regional painters working outside major coastal art markets. The handwritten labeling style supports this being artist-applied, not dealer-added.

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