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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.243
People
Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
Title
Landscape No. 4
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1914
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307733

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on thin off-white wove paper
Dimensions
12.9 x 18.4 cm (5 1/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black crayon, l.l.: Sheeler - 1914

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[N. E. Montross Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to John Quinn, New York, New York, 1915, 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
1939.243
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. 384A, no. 4
  • 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. 129, ill.
  • Charles Sheeler: The Works on Paper, exh. cat., Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art (PA, 1974), no. 2, reproduced
  • Judith Zilczer, 'The Noble Buyer': John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1978), p. 187
  • John Driscoll, "Charles Sheeler's Early Work: Five Rediscovered Paintings", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (1980), no. 62, pp. 129-130, fig. 10

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1944, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 06/01/1944 - 06/28/1944
  • The Quest of Charles Sheeler, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 03/17/1963 - 04/14/1963
  • 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

Verification Level

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