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Charles Sheeler
[American Precisionist Painter and Photographer, 1883-1965]
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Charles Sheeler Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Charles Sheeler available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW! Mini-site for the 2006 exhibition Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Charles Sheeler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Exhibition - The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 4 works online by Sheeler
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Criss-Crossed Conveyors--Ford Plant, 1927 (Zoom)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Charles Sheeler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Skyscrapers, 1922
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut American Interior
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts 23 works online
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Architectural Cadences Number 4
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! The Upstairs
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 7 works online
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut MacDougal Alley, 1924
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio Stacks In Celebration
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 5 paintings online
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York 5 works online
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Bucolic
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Shadow and Substance, 1950
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Industrial Series #1, 1928
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Family Group
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University Delmonico Building, 1926
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Conversation Piece, 1952
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Interior, Bucks County Barn
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Drive Wheels, photograph, 1939
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Rolling Power, 1939
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! 4 works online
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Catastrophe No. 2, 1944 Skyline, 1950
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts City Interior, 1936
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Zinnia and Nasturtium Leaves, photograph, 1915
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Charles Sheeler at The Artchive
Charles Sheeler at The Athenaeum 4 works online
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
California State University WorldImages Database
Charles Sheeler at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Skyscrapers, 1922
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries Charles Sheeler: Across Media at the National Gallery of Art (8 works online)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Sheeler Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Composition around White, 1959
Charles Sheeler at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. 1958 interview from the Oral History project
Charles Sheeler at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. 1959 interview from the Oral History project
The New York Observer "Time Turns Sheeler, A Natural Ascetic, Into an Aesthete", article by Hilton Kramer
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Charles Sheeler and Cult of the Machine
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