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SHEELER, Charles
Lithograph on BFK Rives wove paper. Reference: Bryce 2. Intended edition of 35. Printed by George C. Miller, New York.The intended edition was thir...
View full detailsCharles SHEELER
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), an American painter and photographer, is the most famous artist of the early 20th century Precisionist movement. His fascination with modern machinery and architecture embraced modernity by elevating industrial subjects and combining realism with abstraction. He worked fluidly across several mediums: painting, printmaking, photography, and film. To sustain his art career, Sheeler became a self-taught commercial photographer and worked on large-scale commercial projects. General Motors and the Ford Motor Company hired him to document their factories with photography and paintings; these environments enriched and fed his creative practice very directly. His short film, "Manhatta" titled after the Whitman poem, was made in collaboration with Paul Strand and is considered the first avant-garde film made in America.