Art Institute of Chicago

Industry

Charles Sheeler · 1927

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
NY, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930," September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, "Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection," July 24-October 17, 1993.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Charles Sheeler: Across Media," May 7 - September 4, 2006; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 15, 2006 - January 7, 2007, and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, February 10 - May 6, 2007.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009.

Literature

Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. pp. 66–67, cat. 122.
Travis, David. 1979. "Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930." Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 95, fig. 137.
Wollen, Peter, and Joe Kerr ed. 2003. "Autopia: Cars and Culture." Reaktion Books. p. 129.
Marien, Mary Warner. 2006. "Photography: A Cultural History." 2nd ed. Laurence King Publishing. p. 253.
Brock, Charles. 2006. "Charles Sheeler: Across Media." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington/ University of California Press, pp. 96-97. fig. 23.
Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 125, p. 139 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).

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