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Charles Sheeler (Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr.) was born on 16 July, 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, is an American painter. Discover Charles Sheeler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr.
Occupation director,cinematographer
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July 1883
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Date of death 7 May, 1965
Died Place Dobbs Ferry, New York, US
Nationality United States

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1883

Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand.

Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.

Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1900

He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase.

1908

He found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908.

Most of his education was in drawing and other applied arts.

He went to Italy with other students, where he was intrigued by the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca.

1909

After a trip to Paris in 1909, Sheeler was inspired by works of Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

Returning to the United States, Sheeler felt that he would not be able to make a living as a modernist painter, so he took up commercial photography, focusing on architectural subjects.

Sheeler was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a five dollar Brownie.

1918

Early in his career, he was greatly impacted by the death of his close friend Morton Livingston Schamberg during the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Schamberg's painting had focused heavily on machinery and technology, a theme that featured prominently in Sheeler's own work.

Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside Philadelphia, which he shared with Schamberg until the latter's death.

1920

In 1920, Sheeler invited photographer Paul Strand to collaborate on a "portrait" of Manhattan in film.

The resulting 35mm nine-minute series of vignettes, called Manhatta after Walt Whitman's poem, Mannahatta, was the first avant-garde film created in America.

His work is featured at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan.

He was hired by the Ford Motor Company to photograph and make paintings of their factories.

1932

His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

1939

On April 2, 1939, Sheeler married Musya Metas Sokolova, his second wife, six years after the death in 1933 of first wife Katharine Baird Shaffer (married April 7, 1921).

1940

In 1940, Fortune Magazine published a series of six paintings commissioned of Sheeler.

To prepare for the series, Sheeler spent a year traveling and taking photographs.

Fortune editors aimed to “reflect life through forms … [that] trace the firm pattern of the human mind,” and Sheeler chose six subjects to fulfill this theme: a water wheel (Primitive Power), a steam turbine (Steam Turbine), the railroad (Rolling Power), a hydroelectric turbine (Suspended Power), an airplane (Yankee Clipper) and a dam (Conversation: Sky and Earth).

"Power: A portfolio by Charles Sheeler", Fortune magazine (December 1940) Time Inc., Volume XXII, Number 6

1942

In 1942, Sheeler joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a senior research fellow in photography, worked on a project in Connecticut with the photographer Edward Weston, and moved with Musya to Irvington-on-Hudson, some twenty miles north of New York.

Sheeler worked for the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing artworks and historical objects.

Sheeler painted in a Precisionist style that complemented his photography and has been described as "quasi-photographic".

2019

He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs.

The farmhouse itself serves a prominent role in many of his photographs, which include shots of the bedroom, kitchen, and stairway.

At one point he was quoted as calling it his "cloister."