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Born in Philadelphia, he first studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909 he went to Paris, just when the popularity of Cubism was skyrocketing. Returning to the United States, he realized that he would not be able to make a living with Modernist painting. Instead, he took up commercial photography, focusing particularly on architectural subjects. He was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a $5 Brownie. Nickname: Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States Commonwealth Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government  - Mayor John F. Street (D) Area  - City 369. ... The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is the oldest art school in the United States, founded in Philadelphia in 1805. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... The Brownie No 2 The Kodak Brownie box camera, introduced in 1900, was a very simple camera that anyone could use. ...

Sheeler rented a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside of Philadelphia. He shared it with artist Morton Schamberg. He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs. The farmhouse serves a prominent role in many of his photographs, including shots of the bedroom and kitchen. At one point he was quoted as calling it "my cloister." Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Bucks Founded Incorporated 1745 1838 (Borough) Area  - Borough  2. ...

Sheeler painted using a technique that complemented his photography. He was a self-proclaimed Precisionist, a term that emphasized the linear precision he employed in his depictions. As in his photographic works, his subjects were generally material things such as machinery and structures. He was hired by the Ford Motor Co. to photograph and make paintings of their factories. Precisionism is an artform that is a type of minimalism. ... 2002 Ford Fiesta in the UK. The Ford Motor Company (sometimes nicknamed Fords or FoMoCo, (NYSE: F) is an automobile maker founded by Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan, and incorporated on June 16, 1903. ...

Photography and film work

Films

• 1920 Manhatta with Paul Strand

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Photographic works

• 1917 Doylestown House: Stairs from Below (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• 1927 Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Paintings

Early Works

• 1920 Church Street El, (Cleveland Museum of Art).
• 1925 Still Life.
• 1925 Lady of the Sixties, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1929 Upper Deck, (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA).
• 1930 American Landscape (Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY).
• 1931 Americana (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY).
• 1931 Classic Landscape, (Mr and Mrs Barney A Ebsworth Foundation).
• 1931 View of New York, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1932 Classic Landscape, (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.).
• 1932 Interior with Stove, (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.).
• 1933 River Rouge Plant (Whitney Museum, New York, NY).
• 1934 American Interior, (Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT).
• 1936 City Interior (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA).

Amoskeag Canal 1948, by Charles Sheeler

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Power series

In 1940, Fortune Magazine published a series of six paintings commissioned of Sheeler. To prepare for the series, Sheeler spent a year traveling and taking photographs. Fortune editors aimed to “reflect life through forms…[that] trace the firm pattern of the human mind” and Sheeler chose six subjects to fulfill this theme: a water wheel (Primitive Power), a steam turbine (Steam Turbine), the railroad (Rolling Power), a hydroelectric turbine (Suspended Power), an airplane (Yankee Clipper) and a dam (Conversation: Sky and Earth) ^[1]. Fortune magazine is Americas second longest-running business magazine after Forbes magazine. ... An overshot water wheel standing 42 feet high powers the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome, Georgia A water wheel (also waterwheel, Norse mill, Persian wheel or noria) is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. ... A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ... It has been suggested that Local trains be merged into this article or section. ... Kaplan turbine and electrical generator cut-away view. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

• 1939 Conversation: Sky and Earth, (Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis, MN).
• 1939 Primitive Power, (The Regis Collection, Minneapolis, MN).
• 1939 Rolling Power, (Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA).
• 1939 Steam Turbine, (Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH).
• 1939 Suspended Power, (Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX).
• 1939 Yankee Clipper, (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI).

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Later works

• 1940 Interior (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.).
• 1940 Fugue, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1948 Amoskeag Canal, (Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH).
• c.1952 Windows, (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY).
• 1953 New England Irrelevancies, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1953 Ore Into Iron, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1954 Architectural Cadences Number 4
• 1955 Golden Gate, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY).
• 1956 On a Shaker Theme, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).
• 1957 Red Against White, (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA).

Exhibitions

• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC organized Charles Sheeler: Across Media, also at the Art Institute of Chicago from October 7, 2006 - January 7, 2007
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston organized The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist, which appeared at various museums between 2003 and 2005, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

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Other links

• 1958 interview with Charles Sheeler from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
• 1959 interview with Charles Sheeler from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

External links

• Charles Sheeler: Across Media, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Ten Dreams Galleries
• The Precisionist Art History Archive (includes detailed biography of Charles Sheeler)

Notes

^  “Power: A portfolio by Charles Sheeler”, in Fortune. Chicago: Time Inc., Volume XXII, Number 6, December 1940.

References

• Friedman, Martin. Charles Sheeler. New York: Watson/Guptill Publications, 1975.
• Lucic, Karen. Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.