Charles Sheeler

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Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer.

He is regarded as one of the pioneers of American modernism, who created Precisionism, a "quasiphotographic" style of painting, and becoming one of the twentieth century's top photographers.

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Early life and career

Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and later the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. He began painting as an artist and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908. The bulk of his education was in drawing and other applied arts. He and other Middle Age students travelled to Italy, where Giotto and Piero della Francesca were among the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, as he was captivated by the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, as Giotto and Piero della Francesca. Sheeler was inspired by Picasso and Georges Braque's work on a trip to Paris in 1909. Sheeler, who returned to the United States, found that he would not be able to work as a modernist painter, so he took up commercial photography, focusing on architectural subjects. Sheeler, a self-taught photographer, learned his trade on a five-dollar Brownie.

During the 1918 influenza epidemic, he was especially affected early in his career. Schamberg's painting had a strong emphasis on machinery and electronics, a theme that came prominently in Sheeler's own work.

Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles west of Philadelphia, which he shared with Schamberg until the latter's death. He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it the subject of his photography. In several of his albums, including shots of the bedroom, kitchen, and stairway, the farmhouse itself plays a prominent role. He was described as calling it his "cloister" at one time. His work also appeared in the 1932 Summer Olympics painting competition.

Sheeler married Musya Metas Sokolova, his second wife, six years after her first wife Katharine Baird Shaffer's death in 1933 (married April 7, 1939). Sheeler, a senior research fellow in photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Connecticut, worked on a Connecticut project with photographer Edward Weston and then moved north of New York to Irvington-on-Hudson, about 20 miles north of New York. Sheeler worked with the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing artworks and historical objects.

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

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