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A black crayon drawing on off-white paper.

The black crayon drawing shows a pyramid shaped figure in the center. The figure rises up from the left side in a series of stepped black dashes and short horizontal lines to a stepped structure at the top. The right side angles straight down from the top to a rounded, black form that is thinner on the back and then angles down to the right. The front is a series of softly edged ridges with gray shading.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.246
People
Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
Title
Landscape No. 3
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1916
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307671

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 18 x 24.6 cm (7 1/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black crayon, l.r.: Sheeler / -1916
  • inscription: removed from old backing, in black ink on brown paper, transferred to Archives: Landscape No. 3 - 1916 / Charles Sheeler / 1822 Chestnut St. / Phila

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[N. E. Montross Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to John Quinn, New York, New York, 1917, estate of John Quinn, sold; to Charles B. Hoyt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1927, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.246
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Quinn, 1870-1924, Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture, Pidgeon Hill Press (Huntington, NY, 1926), p. 25
  • Paintings and Sculpture: The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art Formed by the Late John Quinn, American Art Association (New York, NY, 1927), no. 5
  • Judith Zilczer, 'The Noble Buyer': John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1978), p. 188

Exhibition History

  • The Quest of Charles Sheeler, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 03/17/1963 - 04/14/1963
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018

Verification Level

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