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| Charles Sheeler by Ansel Adams 1954 gelatin silver print 25.4 x 20.3 cm |
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 5 of 5-part series on the works of Charles Sheeler.
For more biographical notes see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also.
1949 Ballarvale Revisited
tempera on board 38.7 x 36.2 cm
1949 Industrial Architecture
gouache on board 44.5 x 35.7 cm
MoMA, New York
c1949 Untitled (Hancock Shaker Village)
photograph, dye transfer colour print 25.4 x 33.2 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
c1949 Untitled
photograph, dye transfer print 25.5 x 32.9 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1950 New York #3-Study
gouache and pencil on paper 31,2 x 41 cm
1950 New York No.1
oil on canvas 33 x 50.8 cm
1950 Rockefeller Center, New York
gelatin silver print 21.8 x 16.5 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
1950 Skyscrapers, New York
gelatin silver print 19.8 x 16.4 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
1950 Skyscrapers, New York
gelatin silver print 23.5 x 16 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
1950 Skyscrapers, New York
gelatin silver print 23.5 x 16 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
1951 Beech Tree
gelatin silver print 20.1 x 13.6 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
1951 Beech Tree
gelatin silver print 20.4 x 13.2 cm
MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection
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| 1951 Neighbours oil on canvas 45.7 x 38.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1951 Neighbours opaque watercolour and graphite on paper 15.4 x 13.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1951 Shaker House, Lebanon, New York gelatin silver print 18.9 x 24.2 cm MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection |
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| 1951 United Nations Secretariat gelatin silver print 23.8 x 15.9 cm MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection |
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| 1952 Meta-Mold, Cedarburg, Wisconsin gelatin silver print 19.4 x 13.5 cm MoMA, New York © 2020 The Lane Collection |
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| 1953 Aerial Gyrations gouache on glass 24.8 x 17.8 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1953 Aerial Gyrations oil on canvas 60 x 47.3 cm SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| 1953 New England Irrelevancies oil on canvas 73.6 x 58.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1953 Ore Into Iron oil on canvas 61.2 x 46 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1953 Ore Into Iron tempera and pencil on paper laid down on board 22.9 x 17.5 cm |
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| 1954 Castle Street, No. 39-41 gelatin silver print 13.9 x 20.3 cm The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| 1954 Conference No. 1 oil on canvas 50.9 x 64.1 cm The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| 1954 Stacks in Celebration oil on canvas 55.8 x 71.1 cm Dayton Institute of Art, Ohio |
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| 1954 Architectural Cadences oil on canvas 63.5 x 88.6 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1954 Tree gelatain silver print 22.8 x 15.8 cm |
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| 1955 Golden Gate (Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco) tempera on plexiglass 15.6 x 21.6 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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| 1955 Rocks gelatin silver print 20.6 x 30.2 cm |
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| 1955 The Web (Croton Dam) oil on canvas 56.5 x 61 cm Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York |
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| 1955 Western Industrial oil on canvas 58 x 73.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1955 Horses gouache on paper 27.9 x 35.2 cm |
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| 1956 Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco tempera on plexiglas 16.5 x 11.4 cm |
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| 1956 Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco oil on canvas 80 x 54.6 cm |
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| 1956 On a Shaker Theme oil on canvas 58.4 x 73.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1956 The Great Tree ink, wash and pencil on paper laid down on board 17.5 x 11.4 cm |
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| 1957 California oil on canvas 67.3 x 67.3 cm |
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| 1957 Red Against White tempera on English watercolour board 15.9 x 18.4 cm |
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| 1957 Red Against White tempera on plexiglass 12.7 x 15.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1957 Related Forms II (Continuity #2) tempera on board 26.7 x 21.6 cm |
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| 1957 The Great Tree tempera and pencil on paperboard 11.7 x 16.5 cm |
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| 1958 On a Connecticut Theme oil on canvas 48.6 x 74 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1959 Barn Decorations (Hex Signs) tempera on plexiglass 16.5 x 24.1 cm |
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| 1959 Sun, Rocks and Trees oil on canvas 58.7 c 84 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. The Great Tree tempera on Plexiglass 16.5 x 11.5 cm |
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| n.d. Tulip pastel and charcoal on board 50.8 x 38.1 cm |
