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Charles Sheeler
Meta-Mold
, 1952
25.25 x 31 in. (64.1 x 78.7 cm.)
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Charles Sheeler
American, 1883–1965
Meta-Mold
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1952
Charles Sheeler
Meta-Mold
, 1952
25.25 x 31 in. (64.1 x 78.7 cm.)
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Paintings, oil on canvas
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25.25 x 31 in. (64.1 x 78.7 cm.)
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Movement
Modern Art
Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Meta-Mold Aluminum Company (now Amcast Industrial Corporation), Cedarburg, Wisconsin, 1952
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York
Private Collection, Michigan, acquired from the above in 2009
Exhibitions
Cedarburg, Wisconsin, Meta-Mold Aluminum Company, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 1953
Los Angeles, California, Art Galleries, University of California, Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 10-November [?], 1954; traveled to: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, November 21, 1954-January 2, 1955; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth Texas, March 1[?]-March 31- 1955; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, May 8-June 15, 1955; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 7- May 5, 1955; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California, January [?]-February 28, 1955.
Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, The Quest of Charles Sheeler: 83 Works Honoring His 80th Year, March 17-April 14, 1963, no. 60.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Art Center, Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 25-November 26, 1967, no. 23.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Art Center, American Masters of the Twentieth Century, May 7-June 20, 1982; traveled to: Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, July 11- September 15, 1982, p. 92, illustrated.
New York, Richard York Gallery, Great Planes: Planar Surfaces in American Cubism and Abstraction, November 2-December 20, 2002.
Literature
“The Creative Middle West Arts By and For the People Enliven and Enrich The Land,” Life Magazine (May 18, 1953): 154 [features photograph of Sheeler beside Meta-Mold].
Frederick S. Wright, “Charles Sheeler,” essay in Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition (Los Angeles: Art Galleries, University of California, 1954), pp. 38, 42, illustrated.
Frederick S. Wright, “Charles Sheeler,” Art in America 42 (October 1954), 208, 213, illustrated. Ben Barkin, “Art at Meta-Mold,” Art in America 44 (Spring 1956), p. 36, illustrated (see Figure
2).
Lillian Natalie Dochterman, “The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler,” Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate College of the State University of Iowa, 1963, pp. 88, 497, cat. no. 52.329.
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