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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.182
People
Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
Title
Feline Felicity
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306830

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 35.7 × 33.5 cm (14 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
sheet: 55.7 × 45.4 cm (21 15/16 × 17 7/8 in.)
mat: 55.9 × 52.1 cm (22 × 20 1/2 in.)
frame: 58.4 × 54.6 × 3.5 cm (23 × 21 1/2 × 1 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black crayon, l.r.: Sheeler-1934
  • watermark: Rives

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Downtown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.182
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Reproduction only], Art News, (November 10, 1934)., reproduced p. 16
  • "Cambridge", Art News (January 19, 1935), p. 4
  • "Fogg Museum Acquires Unusual Sheeler", Art Digest (January 15, 1935), vol. IX, reproduced, p. 6
  • [Unidentified article], The Studio (April 1935), CIX, p. 225, reproduced p. 227
  • [Unidentified article], The American Magazine of Art (February 1935), XXVIII, p. 109, reproduced?
  • Holger Cahill, "In a Native Tradition", New York Herald Tribune (New York, NY, September 4, 1938), reproduced p. 4 (IX)
  • "American Painters' Drawings, First Annual Show of Native Draftsmen", Art News (January 25, 1941), vol. XXXIX, ill. p. 8
  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), p. 33, no. 151 p. xvi, repr. as pl. 151
  • Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, 1954), no. 51, reproduced p. 25
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1967), fig. 1-3, pp. 7-8, 26, 280, 387, 390
  • Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler, Artist in the American Tradition, Kennedy Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, 1969), pp. 158-159, reproduced p. 128
  • Enrica Fish, The Cat in Art, Lerner Publications Co. (Minneapolis, MN, 1969)
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 144, ill.
  • Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1975), pp. 91-92, reproduced p. 102
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1976), fig. 195, p. 266
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), pp. 321-323, fig. 285
  • Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), reproduced in b/w p. 232, fig. 8.25
  • Duane Preble, Artforms, Canfield Press (San Francisco, CA, 1978), p. 124, fig. 145
  • Mary Sayre Haverstock, An American Bestiary, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), reproduced p. 187
  • Clare Walker Leslie, Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1980), p. 104, fig. 6.6
  • Nathan Goldstein, A Guide to 100 American and European Drawings: A Portfolio, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982), pl. 7
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982)
  • Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), no. 50, reproduced
  • Wayne Enstice and Melody Peters, Drawing: Space, Form, Expression, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990), pp. 166-169, fig. 9-1
  • Malcolm Goldstein, "Edith Gregor Halpert: Art Dealer", Drawing, New York Drawing Society (July 1991 - August 1991), vol. XIII, pp. 32-35, reproduced p. 34, text pp. 32-35
  • Joseph C. Skrapits, "Shades of Gray: The Drawings of Georges Seurat", American Artist (March 1992), vol. LVI, no. 596, reproduced in b/w p. 48
  • Duane Preble and Sarah Preble, Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, Harper Collins College Publishers (New York, NY, 1994), p. 142, fig. 198
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA, 2007), fig. 10-12, p. 195
  • Paolo Colombo, "The Sound of Water" in Once upon a time...: 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Pavilion of Turkey, exh. cat., Mousse Publishing and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) (Milan, 2022), p. 83, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • [Sheeler Exhibition], The Downtown Gallery, New York, 11/01/1934 - 11/30/1934
  • An Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield and Charles Sheeler, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, 01/12/1935 - 02/02/1935
  • International Watercolor Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 03/21/1935 - 06/02/1935
  • Exhibition of Paintings by Distinguished Contemporary American Artists, E. T. Slattery Co., Boston, 03/04/1937 - 03/27/1937
  • Exhibition of American Painting, Grace Horne Galleries, 12/08/1937 - 09/08/1938
  • Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 01/01/1939 - 12/31/1939
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Albany Institute of History and Art, 1941, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941
  • The Animal Kingdom in Modern Art, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 11/01/1942 - 11/22/1942; Art Institute, Zanesville, Zanesville, 12/01/1942 - 12/22/1942; Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, 01/29/1943 - 02/19/1943; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, 02/27/1943 - 03/12/1943; Chattanooga Art Association, Chattanooga, 03/22/1943 - 04/12/1943; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 04/23/1943 - 05/11/1943; Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, 06/20/1943 - 08/01/1943
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1944, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 06/01/1944 - 06/28/1944
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, 1945, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 05/10/1945 - 06/06/1945
  • Works by Charles Sheeler, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 10/14/1946 - 11/29/1946
  • American Drawings, 17th through 20th Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1948 - 05/30/1948
  • Unidentified Exhibition, University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1950, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, 12/05/1949 - 01/31/1950
  • Aspects of American Realism, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 05/21/1951 - 06/02/1951
  • Charles Sheeler Retrospective, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 10/11/1954 - 11/07/1954; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, 01/14/1955 - 02/11/1955; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, 02/24/1955 - 03/24/1955; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 05/08/1955 - 06/08/1955
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Wesleyan University, 1959, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 07/01/1959 - 08/31/1959
  • The Quest of Charles Sheeler, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 03/17/1963 - 04/14/1963
  • Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, 10/25/1967 - 11/26/1967
  • Charles Sheeler Memorial Exhibition, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 10/09/1968 - 11/24/1968; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 01/09/1969 - 02/16/1969; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 03/10/1969 - 04/27/1969
  • Perception and Illusion, St. Paul's School, Concord, 02/01/1971 - 02/28/1971
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Charles Sheeler, the Works on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, 02/10/1974 - 03/24/1974; Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, 04/02/1974 - 04/20/1974
  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
  • Charles Sheeler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/13/1987 - 01/03/1988; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/28/1988 - 04/17/1988; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 05/15/1988 - 07/10/1988
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993

Verification Level

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