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Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965)

Doylestown House—Stairs from Below, 1917

Gelatin silver print; 21 x 15 cm (8 1/4 x 5 15/16 in.)

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933 (33.43.343)

© The Lane Collection

This photograph was made at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home that Sheeler shared with fellow painter and photographer Morton Schamberg. The spare geometry of the eighteenth-century Doylestown farmhouse proved an irresistible subject for an artist eager to explore with a camera the radical formal ideas that had impressed him in the paintings of Cézanne, Picasso, and Braque.