A chronological view of the Fortune covers involving landscape, as pictured above, portray this slow evolution of aesthetic appeal. Starting with the already familiar wedding of technology with the landscape, the thresher sweeping through the wheat field is reminiscent of George Inness' train commission. Still the focus of the work, the pasture is laden with the golden wealth harvested by the machine. As the years progress, the covers start to displace the accent on agrarian. Within the covers, the machine take a more central view.
Beauty comes from the destruction of the pastoral landscape, from the industrial logging.
Next the angle changes. The train takes the foreground of the image, as opposed to the first train cover where it remains in the background. The focus remains with the train moving through the structured orchard, not with the farmer driving through the same orchard. In the next cover, this distancing is furthered by the view from an airplane , displacing the purpose of the land, and stressing the possibilities of the machine offering the view. Observe the network of roads and planned fields displayed in this cover, another change with industrialism.