Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
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Property from the Collection of Diana Metcalf Stainow
CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)

Sails

Details
CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)
Sails
signed and dated 'Charles Sheeler 1923' (lower right)
pencil and crayon on paper
14 1⁄2 x 19 3⁄8 in. (36.8 x 49.2 cm.)
Executed in 1923.
Provenance
Elizabeth Paine Card.
By descent to the late owner.
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Lot Essay

Charles Sheeler briefly explored the theme of yachting in the early 1920s, spending time at the New York Yacht Club with photographer Paul Strand and capturing the movement of sails in the Cubist style. He produced an oil Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting in 1922 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the pencil study for which is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. These works inspired a later oil of a similar composition titled Wind, Sea and Sail in 1948, in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.

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