Western Industrial

1954

Charles Sheeler

Painter, American, 1883 - 1965

Charles Sheeler

Attributed to

A view onto buildings, structures, and staircases are painted with areas of tan, pearl white, sapphire blue, smoky purple, turquoise, gray, and black on this horizontal piece of glass. A rounded, silo-like structure fills most of the left third of the composition. The corner of a straw-yellow building mirrors it to the right, and in the space between, a patch of lapis blue suggests a clear sky. Staircases, railings, and walkways painted in shades of gray and black crisscross the structures. Some brushstrokes are visible on the otherwise rigid arrangement of mostly geometric forms.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Downtown Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Charles Sheeler Exhibition: Tempera on Plexiglas, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1965, no. 7

1979

  • American Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979-1980

2002

  • American Modernism, Corcorcan Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002-2003

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005, no. 96

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2008

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

1966

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, p. 118.

Wikidata ID

Q46636092

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