New York by Charles Sheeler
Art Institute of Chicago

New York

Charles Sheeler · 1920

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold by Marius de Zayas to the Art Institute, 1921.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • 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.

Literature

Published references

  • 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.

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