Architectural Cadences / Charles Sheeler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.216
- Title
- Architectural Cadences
- Artist
- Charles Sheeler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1883-1965
- Medium and Support
- six-color screenprint on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1954
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Precisionist
- Inscription
- In pencil, l.l.: 100/98; l.r.: Charles Sheeler 1954
- Dimensions
- 19.5 cm x 25.5 cm (7 11/16 in. x 10 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- Multiple color screenprint of an abstracted industrial landscape. In the foreground is a small strip of land, and in the middle ground are buildings of various geometric shapes and sizes. In the background, the rooflines of the buildings start to blend in and emerge from the cloudy sky.
- Subject Matter
- According to Mark Rawlinson's book, Charles Sheeler: Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction, Sheeler's work after 1943 was thought to return to a simplified realism that he pursued in his early career. Sheeler began to consistently rework old themes, a trend that many critics saw as a decline in his talent. During this later period in his work, Sheeler would sift through various images and forms that he already knew and produce new and sometimes awkward compositions through a layering and combining of this past content. The layering of this work by Sheeler demonstrates a possible combining of various architectural forms he had worked with in the past.
- Primary Keywords
- american
- architecture (object genre)
- clouds
- industrial buildings
- screen prints
- windows
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- american regions
- architectural elements
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- industrial structures
- modern and contemporary art
- north american
- object genres
- objects we use
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- scientific concepts
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- windows and window components
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1107 x 841
- File Size
- 63 KB
- Record
- 1983/1.216
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-1.216/1983_1.216.jpg
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"Architectural Cadences; Charles Sheeler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-1.216/1983_1.216.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
