Doylestown House--Stairway with Chair, 1917

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

overall: 23.5 x 16.9 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston

Accession Number

1998.19.1

Artists / Makers

Charles Sheeler (artist) American, 1883 - 1965

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Inscription

all by later hands, on mount: upper left verso in graphite: A; upper right verso in graphite: MFA#16; lower left verso in graphite: L95.3.62; lower right verso in graphite: MMA

Provenance

Mrs. Saundra Lane, Lunenburg, MA; purchased with funds donated from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Lane, Saundra, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1999: Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, as Doylestown House-Stairway with Chair.

2006: Charles Sheeler: Across Media, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Legion of honor, San Francisco, 2006 - 2007, no. 3.

Bibliography

1987: Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., and Norman Keyes, Jr. Charles Sheeler: The Photographs. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1987: pl. 16.

1997: Lucic, Karen. Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition. Exh. cat. Allentown Art Museum. Allentown (Pennsylvania), 1997: pl. 13.