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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.244
People
Charles Sheeler, American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
Title
Landscape No. 5
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Landscape. Page from a Sketchbook 1914
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1914
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307850

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
14.9 x 17.5 cm (5 7/8 x 6 7/8 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
1939.244
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 384B
  • 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, 131, 132, fig. 11
  • Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), under no. 5, fig. a

Verification Level

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