Charles Sheeler - A Major American Modernist

Golden Gate - Charles Sheeler  - 1955 - Oil on canvas - H. 25-1/8, W. 34-7/8 inches (63.5 x 86.4 cm.) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965) - Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company - 1927 - Gelatin silver print - Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection - Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987.Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was one of the founders of American Modernism, one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, and an artist whose work is synonymous with Precisionism. Trained in industrial drawing, decorative painting, and applied art, Sheeler synthesized his understanding of each discipline into a singular, Precisionist approach.

“Equally gifted as a photographer and painter, Sheeler analyzed the relationships between photography and traditional artistic methods such as painting and drawing with more rigor and intellectual discipline than perhaps any other American artist of his generation.”