"The Birth of Power"

Artist: Willy Pogany
Source: Edward Dean Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918. Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Niagara Falls Power Company, 1927. No other information is provided other than the following caption:

"The Birth of Power" This colorful mural from the masterly brush of Willy Pogany greets thousands who annually visit the Schoellkopf Station of the Niagara Falls Power Company. This allegorical painting tells in vivid and powerful tone, but with eerie lightness, the romantic birth story of humanity's modern servant—electrical power. Torrents of energy tumble into the eddying pool of human waves from which emerge two poles imparting the spark of life into the giant genie—POWER. —Edward Dean Adams, 1927