The Artist Looks at Nature

1. The artist; sold through the Downtown Gallery to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Lincoln, Neb., Nebraska Art Association, University Art Galleries, University of Nebraska, Fifth–Fourth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Mar. 5–Apr. 2, 1944, cat. 133.
• Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute of Art, Painting in the United States, 1944, Oct. 12–Dec. 10, 1944, cat. 4.
• Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Jan. 1–Feb. 4, 1945, cat. 51.
• New York, The Downtown Gallery, Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Charles Sheeler, Mar. 5–23, 1946, cat. 2.
• Andover, Mass., Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Oct. 10–Nov. 25, 1946, no cat.
• Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Pictures within Pictures, Nov. 9–Dec. 31, 1949, cat. 38, ill. pl. III, Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Jan. 6–Feb. 12, 1950.
• Houston, Tex., Contemporary Arts Museum, Sheeler Dove Exhibition, Jan. 7–23, 1951, cat. 41.
• Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Charles Sheeler, May 18–June 15, 1952, no cat.
• Los Angeles, University of California, Art Galleries, Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 11–Nov. 7, 1954, cat. 24, ill. p. 31; San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum; Fort Worth Art Center; Utica, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; San Diego Fine Arts Gallery. [Oct. 11, 1954–June 15, 1955 was entirety of travel time to all museums.]
• IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 29.
• Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Aspects of Representation in Contemporary Art, Feb. 8–Mar. 8, 1959, cat. 24.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

• "Charles Sheeler: The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943," Art News 43, 13 (Oct. 15–31, 1944), 10, ill.
• Frederick A. Sweet, "Three American Paintings," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 1 (Jan. 1945), 5–7, ill.
• Frederick S. Wight, "Charles Sheeler," in Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition (University of California Art Galleries, 1954), 42, ill. p. 31.
• Martin L. Friedman, The Precisionist View in American Art: Ault, Blume, Crawford, Davis, Demuth, Dickinson, Driggs, Guglielmi, Hirsch, Lewandowski, Lozowick, O'Keeffe, Schamberg, Sheeler, Spencer, Stella (Walker Art Center, 1960), n. 17, 25.
• Lillian Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler (Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1963), 82–3, 389, cat. 43.221, ill. p. 389.
• Martin Friedman, "The Art of Charles Sheeler: Americana in a Vacuum," in Charles Sheeler (Published for the National Collection of Fine Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968), 37, ill. p. 67.
• Bartlett Hayes, "Reminiscence" in Charles Sheeler (Published for the National Collection of Fine Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968), 71–3, ill. p. 67.
• Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1975), 92, 131, ill. p. 121
• Susan Fillin–Yeh, Charles Sheeler and the Machine Age (Ph.D. diss, City University of New York, 1981), 99–100, 110–11.
• James Maroney, The Elite and Popular Appeal of the Art of Charles Sheeler (James Maroney, Inc., 1986), 14.
• Susan Fillin–Yeh, "Charles Sheeler's American interiors," Antiques 131 (April 1987), 828–37, ill. pl. I.
• Susan Fillin–Yeh, Charles Sheeler: American Interiors (Yale University Art Gallery, 1987), 19, 21, 34, ill. p. 35.

Western Industrial

Art Institute of Chicago

Industry

Art Institute of Chicago

New York

Art Institute of Chicago

Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher, Ford Plant

Art Institute of Chicago

Nude Torso

Art Institute of Chicago

Geraniums, Pots, Spaces

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait at Easel

Art Institute of Chicago

Ladle on a Hot Metal Car, Ford Plant

Art Institute of Chicago

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