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The Photography of Charles Sheeler
June 3, 2003–August 17, 2003
Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries, 2nd Floor
The first major exhibition of photographs by the American artist Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), this show includes work from each of the artist's major photographic series, from the rough-hewn surfaces of his Doylestown house to the Manhattan skyline, from the swelling forms of a nude body to the industrial landscape of an automotive works. Also included are a number of Sheeler's little-known late photographs, which were employed in place of traditional sketches as "notes in shorthand" for his paintings of the 1940s and 1950s.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Kenneth P. Siegel.
It was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Photographs were drawn from The Lane Collection.
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