Description:

Charles Sheeler
(1883 - 1965)
River Rouge Construction, 1928
watercolor on paper
signed and dated lower center: Sheeler 1928


Charles Sheeler was an influential American artist who used both photography and painting, which he referred to as his 'separate eyes,' to capture the function, abstraction, and the human element of the American industrial and urban age.

He studied at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art from 1900 - 1902, and from there went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1903 to 1906. He became a leading figure in the Precisionist movement, which celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories. Subjects were reduced to their essential geometric shapes, eliminating detail, and as this untitled watercolor shows, with its upward perspective, introducing planes of light to focus on the grandeur of the worker and the steel.

    Provenance:
  • Private Collection, New Mexico
  • Dimensions:
  • 12 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (32.7 x 35.2 cm.), Frame: 21 3/4 x 22 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (55.2 x 57.8 x 4.4 cm.)
  • Artist Name:
  • Charles Sheeler
  • Medium:
  • watercolor on paper
  • Condition:
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