Artist: Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965)
Nationality: American
Movement: Precisionism
Media: Painting,Photography
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Biography:
Initially a painter, Charles Sheeler adopted photography in 1912 to help his finances. He photographed the buildings of Philadelphia architects to make a living while exhibiting his paintings and photographs on the side. In 1919, Sheeler moved to New York where he collaborated with Paul Strand on the film “Manhatta.”

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Charles Sheeler, Still Life, 1925
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Charles Sheeler, Architectural Cadences Number Four, 1954
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Wheels
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Americana, 1931 Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)Oil on canvas; H. 48, W. 36 in. (121.9 x
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Doylestown House - The Stove
Museum of Fine Arts -
Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Lady of the Sixties 1925 Oil on canvas 61.28 x 35.24
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927 Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)Depicted: Michigan, United
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Charles Sheeler - The Upstairs 1938 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Charles Sheeler - Catastrophe #1 1944 tempera on wove pape Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
Museum of Fine Arts -
Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 View of New York 1931 Oil on canvas 121.92 x 92.39
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Nude 1920 Graphite pencil on paper 11.5 x 15.2 cm (4
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Charles Sheeler - Drive Wheels 1939 gelatin silver print Smith College Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Totems in Steel 1935 gouache on paper Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Sheeler - Rolling Power 1939 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Amoskeag Canal 1948 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Suspended Power 1939 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Classic Landscape 1931 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Shadow and Substance 1950 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Church Street El 1920 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Fugue 1940 Tempera and graphite on gessoed Masonite 35.56 x 43.18
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Charles Sheeler - Connecticut Barn and Landscape 1934 watercolor on paper Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Sheeler - Doylestown House - The Stove 1917 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - Doylestown House - Stairwell 1917 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Sheeler - American Landscape 1930 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 On a Shaker Theme 1956 Oil on canvas 58.42 x 73.98
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Wheels 1939 Photograph, gelatin silver print Image/Sheet:16.51 x 24.13 cm (6
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Charles Sheeler - Home Sweet Home 1931 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Ore Into Iron 1953 Oil on canvas 61.28 x 46.04 cm
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 New England Irrelevancies 1953 Oil on canvas 73.66 x 58.42 cm
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Three White Tulips 1912 Oil on panel 34.92 x 26.67 cm
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Spring Interior 1927 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.82 cm (30
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 Blue Ridge Mountains 1937 Opaque watercolor (tempera?) with graphite under drawing
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Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965 On the Theme of Farm Buildings #2 1947 Opaque watercolors with
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Side of a White Barn
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edouard Manet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, Full Face, from the book Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work) by Charles Asselineau (Paris: Lemerre, 1869), 1865
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacques Charles Bar, Charles Rollin, 18th - 19th century
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Philippe de Champaigne - Charles II 1653 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Richard Verbrick - Charles Cox 1835 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Pierre Charles Ingouf, Paul-Charles Lorry, 18th - 19th century
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Charles Hobson, Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (12)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Photography of Charles Sheeler
This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All photographs were drawn from The Lane Collection. The exhibition focuses in depth on Sheeler's inventive intertwining of the American vernacular with European abstrac...
Orlando Museum of Art: An American Palette: Paintings Celebrating American Art and Life
IMAGE:
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
On A Shaker Theme #2, 1956
Tempera on paper, 7 ½ x 9 ½ in.
Private Collection
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National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Mimesis. Modern Realism 1918-1945
Despite this, and in contrast to other tendencies such as Surrealism and geometrical Abstraction, which came about in a homogenous and organised manner, Realism was a varied and plural trend which acquired different characteristics depending on so...
Griffin Contemporary: Paul Strand: Works 1915-1954
"Manhatta" was shot in New York within a five-block radius that encompassed Battery Park, the Staten Island Ferry docks, Wall Street, and Trinity Place -a location of significance for Americans today. The film is a non-narrative sequence of formal...
Tatar Gallery: Jim Cooke and Sylvie Readman
Inspired by his upbringing in the English town of Coventry, Jim Cooke shifts his focus in a new collection of works at the Tatar Gallery from his usual fascination with monuments of Arcadian beauty to those of a more personal Arcadia – his own chi...
Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Landscape
More than 240 landscape paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the colonial period to the present, reveal much about Virginia's natural history and the attitudes of its citizens. Initially, the commonwealth was best know...
Georgia O'Keefe Museum: Views of the City: 1910–1949
Museum director George G. King said, This exhibition provides the viewer a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Georgia OKeeffe, her colleagues,...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Museum of Modern Art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA
Beginning June 24, 1999, MoMA will present Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA, a display of approximately 100 prints that Mrs. Rockefeller enjoyed in her private collection, before donating them to th...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Columbus Museum of Art: Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland
The exhibition and its national tour are sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. Illusions of Eden is one component of The Heartland Project, a series of three traveling museum exhibitions and an interactive website that will evaluate t...

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