Dahlias and Asters

1912

Charles Sheeler

Associated Names
Charles Sheeler

Artist, American, 1883 - 1965

The image shows a tall, pale green vase containing a bouquet of colorful flowers. The flowers in the bouquet are predominantly red, orange, yellow, and pink against a dark green background. The vase is centrally positioned in the composition, reaching from the bottom to just below the middle of the image, while the bouquet covers the upper center area. The background consists of a blend of dark and medium greens.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joan B. Detweiler)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 51.12 × 35.88 cm (20 1/8 × 14 1/8 in.)
    framed: 59.69 × 44.45 × 4.45 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.136.85

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly (Downtown Gallery, New York); Joan B. Detweiler [Mrs. F.H. Detweiler]; gift 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1963

  • Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1972

  • Conservation in the Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 September-22 October 1972, unpublished checklist.

1980

  • An American Flower Show, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, MA, 1980, unnumbered.

1984

  • Roots of Modernism in America: Artists of the Armory and the Eight, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, 1984.

1988

  • Charles Scheeler: Paintings, Drawing, Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, Dallas Museum of Art, 1988.

2002

  • American Modernism, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

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, 1966: 117.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.

2013

  • Kushner, Marilyn Satin, and Kimberly Orcutt, eds. The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution. New York, 2013: 459.

Inscriptions

lower left: Sheeler 1911; across center reverse: 'Dahlias / and / Asters' / C.R. Sheeler. / 1912

Wikidata ID

Q46633013

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