1939.244: Landscape No. 5

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1939.244

People

Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)

Title

Landscape No. 5

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Landscape. Page from a Sketchbook 1914

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1914

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307850

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black crayon on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

14.9 x 17.5 cm (5 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black crayon, l.l.: Sheeler / -1914

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[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

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.244

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 384B
• 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, 131, 132, fig. 11
• Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), under no. 5, fig. a

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