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Title:American Interior
Artist:Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
Date:1935
Medium:Opaque watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:11 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (29 × 31.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1941
Object Number:41.178.1
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): Sheeler-1935
the artist, Ridgefield, Conn. and Irvington, N. Y. (1935; sold on May 18, 1935, for $108, through Downtown Gallery, New York to Kootz); Samuel M. Kootz, New York (1935–at least 1939); [New York City Council for Art Week, Inc., 1941; sold to MMA]
New York. Downtown Gallery. "$100 Exhibition–Extraordinary Values (Second Installation)," June 4–14, 1935, unnum. checklist.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs," October 4–November 1, 1939, no. 98 (lent by Samuel M. Kootz, New York).
Boston. Goodman-Walker Fine Arts. March 1941, no catalogue.
New York. W. and J. Sloane. "National Art Week," November 17–23, 1941, no catalogue.
Allentown Art Museum. "Charles Sheeler: Retrospective Exhibition," November 17–December 31, 1961, no. 20.
Iowa City. University of Iowa. "The Quest of Charles Sheeler: 83 Works Honoring His 80th Year," March 17—April 14, 1963, no. 42.
Albany Institute of History & Art. "Sheeler on a Shaker Theme," April 7–May 23, 1965, no catalogue.
Tampa. Florida State Fair. "A Loan Exhibition of American Painting," February 1–12, 1966, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 204.
Cedar Rapids Art Center. "Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition," October 25–November 26, 1967, no. 13.
New York. Terry Dintenfass. "Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), Classic Themes: Paintings, Drawings and Photographs," May 10–30, 1980, no. 23.
Berlin. Akademie der Künste. "Amerika: Traum und Depression 1920/40," November 9–December 28, 1980, no. 305.
Kunstverein Hamburg. "Amerika: Traum und Depression 1920/40," January 11–February 15, 1981, no. 305.
Palazzo della Triennale, Milan. "Il Progetto Domestico, La Casa dell'Uomo: Archetipi e Prototipi," January 18–March 30, 1986, no. 2 (as "Interno americano," p. 266).
New Haven, Conn. Yale University Art Gallery. "Charles Sheeler: American Interiors," April 1–May 31, 1987, no. 46.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. "Precisionism in America, 1915–1941: Reordering Reality," May 7–July 4, 1995, no. 129.
Lincoln, Neb. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. "Precisionism in America, 1915–1941: Reordering Reality," September 5–November 5, 1995, no. 129.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Photography of Charles Sheeler," June 3–August 17, 2003, not in catalogue (unnumbered checklist for MMA venue).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Simple Gifts: Shaker at The Met," January 1–August 6, 2017, no catalogue.
"Museum Buys Paintings: Metropolitan Gets Nine on View During National Art Week." New York Times (November 25, 1941), p. 29.
Marshall B. Davidson. "American House-Warming." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 3 (March 1945), ill. p. 182.
Faith and Edward D. Andrews. "Sheeler and the Shakers." Art in America 53 (February 1965), ill. p. 95.
Bernhard Schulz inAmerika: Traum und Depression 1920/40. Ed. Eckhart Gillen and Yvonne Leonard. Exh. cat., Akademie der Künste. Berlin, 1980, pp. 120, 534, no. 305, fig. 53.
Wendy W. Belser. "Charles Sheeler, Photographer of Art." Print Collector's Newsletter 13 (March–April 1982), p. 16.
Christopher Yulo in Susan Fillin-Yeh. Charles Sheeler: American Interiors. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Conn., 1987, p. 59, no. 46, ill. p. 60.
Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond. Selling Shaker: The Commodification of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. Liverpool, England, 2007, p. 53 n. 26.
Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
ca. 1930
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