Date
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Signed lower right, in image, in graphite: "Sheeler 1920"
Dimensions
50.5 × 33 cm (19 15/16 × 13 in.)
Credit Line
Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number
1922.5552
Extended information about this artwork
Lillian Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler (Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1963), pp. 27-8, 39, no. 20.073, ill. p. 221.
Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1975), p. 32 and 35 (ill.).
Susan Fillin-Yeh, Charles Sheeler and the Machine Age (Ph.D. diss, City University of New York, 1981), p. 207
Patrick Leonard Stewart, Charles Sheeler, William Carlos Williams and the Development of the Precisionist Aesthetic, 1917-1931 (Ph.D. diss, University of Delaware, 1981), p. 33, pl. XI.
Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirschler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987), pp. 27, 82-85 (ill.).
Erica E. Hirshler, “The ‘New New York’ and the Park Row Building: American Artists View an Icon of the Modern Age,” American Art Journal 21, 4 (Winter 1989), p. 43, fig. 11.
Karen Lucic, Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine (Reaktion Books, 1991), pp. 58-59, fig. 22.
Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art in association with University of California Press, 2006), pp. 48 and 64 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., “American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955,” (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), no. 25.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 1-Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 1075.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs,” Oct. 2-Nov. 1, 1939, cat. 48.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “This is Our City,” 1941, cat. 155.
Iowa City, University of Iowa, “The Quest of Charles Sheeler,” Mar. 17-Apr. 14, 1963, cat. 16, pp. 14, 40, fig 6.
Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, “Drawings by Contemporary Artists,” May 20-June 10, 1944, n. p., cat. 40.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” Oct 17-Nov 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 140.
Washington, D.C., The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, “Charles Sheeler,” Oct. 10–Nov. 24, 1968, cat. 23, p. 113 (ill.); also Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jan. 10–Feb. 16, 1969; and Whitney Museum of American Art, Mar. 11–Apr. 27, 1969.
Palm Beach, Fl., Society of Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” Jan. 5–27, 1974, cat. 44.
New York, Terry Dintenfass, Inc., “Charles Sheeler (1883-1965): Classic Themes: Paintings Drawings and Photographs,” May 10-30, 1980, cat. 8, p. 33 (ill.).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs,” Oct. 13, 1987–Jan. 3, 1988, cat. 17, p. 83 (ill.); also Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 28–Apr. 17, 1988; and Dallas Museum of Art, May 15–July 10, 1988.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Charles Sheeler: Across Media,” May 7-Aug. 27, 2006, cat. 12, p. 64 (ill.); also the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 7, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007; and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Feb. 10-May 6, 2007.
The artist; sold by Marius de Zayas to the Art Institute, 1921.
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