WEBSummary of Charles Sheeler. Famous for both his photographs and the paintings he often made from them, Sheeler was an influential American artist for most of the first half of the 20 th century. Sheeler used both …

WEBSheeler worked for the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing a wide range of works from the collection, including Assyrian reliefs ( 1982.1188.4 ), classical Greek and Roman …

WEBSheeler’s paintings from this time, many of which take inspiration from the artist’s own photographs, use the imagery of America’s rural past and industrialized present to explore modernist ideas of perception and …

WEBCharles Sheeler. American Landscape. 1930. New on view. MoMA, Floor 5, 511 The David Geffen Wing. Although the title American Landscape may evoke a rural scene, Sheeler's subject here is the Ford Motor Company …