Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) was born in Philadelphia. His education included instruction in industrial drawing and the applied arts at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia (1900–1903), followed by a traditional training in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1903–6). He found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908. He realised that he would not be able to make a living with Modernist painting. Instead, he took up commercial photography, focusing particularly on architectural subjects. Sheeler painted using a technique that complemented his photography and has been described as “quasi-photographic". He was a self-proclaimed Precisionist, a term that emphasised the linear precision he employed in his depictions. As in his photographic works, his subjects were generally material things such as machinery and structures.
This is part 2 of 5-part series on the works of Charles Sheeler.
For more biographical notes and for earlier works see part 1 also.
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| 1918–1919, printed ca.1930 The Lily, Mt. Kisco gelatin silver print 23.6 x 19.4 cm (image) Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| 1920 Church Street El gelatin silver print 15.6 x 18.3 cm |
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| 1920 Church Street El oil on canvas 60 x 67.5 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1920 New York graphite on cream Japanese vellum 50.5 x 33 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1920 Nude graphite on paper 11.4 x 15.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1920 Tiger Lilies graphite on ivory wove paper 26.8 x 37 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1920 Baroness Elsa’s “Portrait of Duchamp" gelatin silver print 25.4 x 20.3 cm Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick |
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| c1920 Nude Torso graphite and black pencil, with stumping and erasing, on ivory wove paper 11.5 x 16 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1920 Untitled (Yachting) pencil and conte crayon on paper 16.5 x 28.2 cm |
1920 Manhatta
In 1920, Sheeler collaborated with fellow photographer Paul Strand on the short film Manhatta, presenting dramatic views of lower Manhattan. Abstract stills from the 35mm film, which was shot from steep angles, are presented alongside larger prints of Sheeler’s cinematic images of New York City, produced shortly after Manhatta—which he used as source material for his paintings.
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| 1920 Manhatta - Rooftops gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA © 2020 The Lane Collection |
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| 1920 Manhatta - New York, Buildings in Shadows and Smoke gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1920 Manhatta – Ferry Docking gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA © 2020 The Lane Collection |
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| 1920 Manhatta – Through a Balustrade gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA © The Lane Collection |
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| 1920 New York, Buildings in Shadows and Smoke gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA © The Lane Collection |
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| 1921 Figure of a Child gelatin silver print 23.8 x 14.3 cm (image) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| c1921 The Young Boy gelatin silver print 23.7 x 15.4 cm (image) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1922 Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting oil on canvas 50.8 x 61.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1922 Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting wax crayon and pencil on paper 48.6 x 61.1 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1922 Skyscrapers oil on canvas 50.8 x 33 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1922 Suspended Forms (Still Life) charcoal, black and brown chalk, watercolour, and oil crayon on paper 48.3 x 38.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri |
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| 1922 Suspended Forms tempera and Conté crayon on paper 50.8 x 39.3 cm |
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| 1922 Tulips and Etruscan Vase pencil on paper 54 x 40.5 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1922 Untitled gelatin silver print 19.5 x 24.5 cm (image) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1923 Bucks County Barn tempera, charcoal pencil, and graphite pencil on paper 49.8 x 66 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1923 Bucks County Barn tempera, charcoal pencil, and graphite pencil on paper 49.8 x 66 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1923 Geraniums, Pots, Spaces black and red Conté crayon, with coloured pencils and stumped charcoal, over graphite, on ivory laid paper 61.6 x 49 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1923 Installation view of Whitney Studio Club Exhibition "Recent Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Negro Sculpture" gelatin silver print 18.9 x 23.8 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1923 Installation view of Whitney Studio Club Exhibition "Recent Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Negro Sculpture" gelatin silver print 18.9 x 23.8 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1923 Self-Portrait conté crayon, gouache, and pencil on paper 50.1 x 65.2 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1924 Amaryllis pastel on paper 55.5 x 68.6 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1924 Roses lithograph 27.9 x 23.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1924 Yachts lithograph 20 x 24.9 cm (image) MoMA, New York |
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| c1924 Self-Portrait pastel and charcoal on paper 61 x 48.4 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| c1924 Vermont Landscape opaque watercolor, (tempera?), wax crayon, pastel, charcoal, graphite, scratching 24.7 x 19.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1925 Lady of the Sixties oil on canvas 61.2 x 33.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1925 Pennsylvania Landscape oil on canvas 25.4 x 30.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1925 Still Life oil on canvas 30.5 x 25.4 cm |
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| 1925 Yellow Iris oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm |
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| 1925-26 Tulips oil on canvas 76.2 x 50.8 cm |
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| c1925 Figure of a Child by William Zorach toned gelatin silver print 23 x 13.9 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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| c1925 Peaches in a Bowl oil on canvas 25 x 20.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1926 Aldous Huxley gelatin silver print 25.4 x 20.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1926 Aldous Huxley gelatin silver print |
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| 1926 Boxer Georges Carpentier demonstrates the Charleston gelatin silver print |
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| 1926 Boxer Georges Carpentier demonstrates the Charleston gelatin silver print |
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| 1926 Boxer Georges Carpentier demonstrates the Charleston gelatin silver print |
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| 1926 Delmonico Building lithograph 24.8 x 17 cm (image) MoMA, New York |
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| 1926 Interior gelatin silver print 22.8 x 15.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1926 Interior oil and fabricated chalk on linen 84.1 x 56.2 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| c1926 Geranium oil on linen 81.4 x 66.2 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1927 Accessories for travel by Motor gelatin silver print 19.7 x 24.5 cm |
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| 1927 Spring Interior oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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