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Original works by Charles Sheeler available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2006 exhibition Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Steam Turbine, 1939
Charles Sheeler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition - The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Architectural Cadences Number Four, 1954
Still Life, 1925
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Sheeler
Charles Sheeler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, Ford Motor Company, photograph, 1927
Doylestown House - Stairs from Below, photograph, 1917
Americana, 1931
Charles Sheeler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Photography of Charles Sheeler
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
American Landscape, 1930
Charles Sheeler at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
7 works by Charles Sheeler
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Criss-Crossed Conveyors--Ford Plant, 1927 (Zoom)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Skyscrapers, 1922
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 NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Upstairs
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
7 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Suspended Power, 1939
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
MacDougal Alley, 1924
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Stacks In Celebration
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
5 paintings online
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
5 works online
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Bucolic
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Industrial Series #1, 1928
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Family Group
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Delmonico Building, 1926
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Conversation Piece, 1952
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Gladioli in White Pitcher, 1926
Sheldon Art Gallery, 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
Charles Sheeler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Bucks County Barn, 1940
Flower Forms, 1917
The Huntington Library, California
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
River Rouge Plant, 1932
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
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 Institution 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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Charles Sheeler in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self-Portrait
Charles Sheeler at CGFA
Charles Sheeler at The Athenaeum
4 works online
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
PBase Photo Sharing
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Skyscrapers, 1922
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Charles Sheeler: Across Media at the National Gallery of Art (8 works online)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Sheeler
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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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1958 interview from the Oral History project
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1959 interview from the Oral History project
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Time Turns Sheeler, A Natural Ascetic, Into an Aesthete
"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.
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Charles Sheeler and Cult of the Machine
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