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CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)

Lot 18
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Lot 18 | CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)
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$ 500 000 – 700 000
CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)

Interior

signed and dated 'Charles Sheeler - 1919' (lower right)—signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the stretcher)

oil on canvas

24 x 16 in. (60.9 x 40.6 cm.)

Painted in 1919.





Provenance

de Zayas Gallery, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Litchfield Turnbull, Houston, Texas, acquired from the above, circa 1920-21.

Mr. And Mrs. James L. Whitcomb, Houston, Texas, acquired from the above, by 1982.

Richard York Gallery, New York.

Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, acquired from the above, 1989.

Richard York Gallery, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.



Literature

The Arts Magazine, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1923, p. 339, illustrated.

C. Rourke, Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition, New York, 1938, pp. 36, 67, illustrated (as Hallway).

M. Friedman, Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, New York, 1975, pp. 55, 89, illustrated (Hallway).

P.L. Stewart, Jr., Charles Sheeler, William Carlos Williams, and the Development of the Precisionist Aesthetic: 1917-1931, Ph.D dissertation, University of Delaware, 1981, p. 187, pl. V, illustrated (as Hallway).

R. Smith, "Art: Paintings and Drawings by Charles Sheeler," The New York Times, February 12, 1988, p. 24 (as Hallway [Interior]).

Richard York Gallery, An American Gallery: Volume V, New York, 1989, no. 22, illustrated (as Hallway [Interior]).

D.P. Curry, E.L. O’Leary, S.J. Rawles, American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, Virginia, 1997, p. 47, fig. 32, illustrated (as Hallway, Interior).



Exhibited

New York, de Zayas Gallery, Charles Sheeler, 1920 (as The Stairway).

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Sheeler, October 10, 1968-April 27, 1969, pp. 15, 36-37, 155, no. 20, illustrated (as Hallway).

Edinburgh, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy; London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Painting, 1908-1935, August 20-November 20, 1977, p. 62, no. 99 (as Hallway).

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; St. Louis, Missouri, The St. Louis Art Museum; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, September 9, 1982-October 9, 1983, pp. 77-78, 236, no. 91, illustrated (as Hallway).

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas, Texas, Museum of Art, Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, October 13, 1987-July 10, 1988, pp. 74-75, no. 12, illustrated (as Hallway [Interior]).

New York, Richard York Gallery, Modernism at the Salons of America: 1922-1936, October 19-December 8, 1995, pp. 13, 21, no. 59, illustrated (as Hallway [Interior]).

Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, March 2-July 1, 2001.
Artist:Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
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