Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand.
12 Facts About Charles Sheeler
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Charles Sheeler attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase.
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Charles Sheeler found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908.
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Charles Sheeler went to Italy with other students, where he was intrigued by the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca.
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Charles Sheeler was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a five dollar Brownie.
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Charles Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside Philadelphia, which he shared with Schamberg until the latter's death.
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Charles Sheeler was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs.
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In 1942, Charles Sheeler joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a senior research fellow in photography, worked on a project in Connecticut with the photographer Edward Weston, and moved with Musya to Irvington-on-Hudson, some twenty miles north of New York.
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Charles Sheeler worked for the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing artworks and historical objects.
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Charles Sheeler painted in a Precisionist style that complemented his photography and has been described as "quasi-photographic".
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In 1920, Charles Sheeler invited photographer Paul Strand to collaborate on a "portrait" of Manhattan in film.
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Charles Sheeler was hired by the Ford Motor Company to photograph and make paintings of their factories.