- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1939.245
- People
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Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
- Title
- Landscape No. 1
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1915
- Culture
- American
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black crayon on thin off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 16.3 x 23 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black crayon, l.r.: Sheeler / 1915
- inscription: removed from old mount, in black ink, sent to Archives: Landscape No. 1 - 1915 / Charles Sheeler
- Provenance
- [N. E. Montross Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to John Quinn, New York, New York, 1915, estate of John Quinn, sold; to Charles B. Hoyt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1927, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.245
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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John Quinn, 1870-1924, Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture, Pidgeon Hill Press (Huntington, NY, 1926), p. 25, reproduced in b/w p. 180
Paintings and Sculpture: The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art Formed by the Late John Quinn, American Art Association (New York, NY, 1927), no. 130
Charles Sheeler: The Works on Paper, exh. cat., Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art (PA, 1974), no. 2, reproduced
Judith Zilczer, 'The Noble Buyer': John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1978), p. 187
John Driscoll, "Charles Sheeler's Early Work: Five Rediscovered Paintings", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (1980), no. 62, pp. 129, 132, fig. 16
Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), under no. 6, fig. a
Karen Lucic, Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine, Reaktion Books (London, England, 1991), p. 37, fig. 9
- Exhibition History
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The Quest of Charles Sheeler, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 03/17/1963 - 04/14/1963
Charles Sheeler, the Works on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, 02/10/1974 - 03/24/1974; Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, 04/02/1974 - 04/20/1974
The Forum Exhibition: Selections and Additions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/10/1983 - 04/08/1983
32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018
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