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Charles Sheeler
American (Philadelphia, PA 1883 - 1965 Dobbs Ferry, NY)
Upper Deck, 1929

Painting
Oil on canvas
sight: 73 x 55.3 cm (28 3/4 x 21 3/4 in.)
framed: 87 x 69.22 x 3.49 cm (34 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Signed: l.r.: Sheeler 29
Creation Place: United States
Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund, 1933.97
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art

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Bibliography: William Germain Dooley, "Realist Trio Show Harvard Their Works", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, December 8, 1934), [magazine section] p. 7

Janet Congdon, "Some Important Museum Acquisitions", Parnassus (February 1934), vol. VI, no. II, pp. 18-19, p. 18

"[Unidentified article]", Parnassus (February 1934), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 18

Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler, Artist in the American Tradition, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, NY, 1938), p. 81

"[Unidentified article]", Art Digest (October 15, 1939), reproduced on the cover and mentioned on p. 6

Dorothy Adlow, "The Real and Ideal in American Art", The Christian Science Monitor (September 13, 1948), p.4, reproduced

John I. H. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in American Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1951), reproduced fig. 74

Milton W. Brown, American Painting: Art from the Armory Show to the Depression, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1952), reproduced, no. 69

Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, 1954)

John I. H. Baur, ed., New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century, New York Graphic Society (Greenwich CT/Praeger, New York, 1957), p. 98

The Precisionist View in American Art, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1960)

John I. H. Bauer, "Paintings and Sculpture", An Outline of Man's Knowledge of the Modern World, ed. Lyman Bryson, Doubleday & Co. (New York, NY, 1960)

Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America, Rinehart (New York, NY, 1960), reproduced p. 388

Dorothy Adlow, "The Home Forum", The Christian Science Monitor (June 18, 1962), reproduced

John D. Hicks, The American Nation, Houghton Mifflin Company (New York, NY, 1963), reproduced

John Caughey and Ernest R. May, A History of the United States, Rand-McNally (New York, NY, 1964), reproduced

U.S.A., Time-Life Books (New York, NY, 1965), reproduced

Francesco Abbate, Arte in America, Elite (Milan, Italy, 1966), reproduced as no. 60

Enrico Crispolti, La Pop Art, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Milan, Italy, 1966), reproduced

George Heard Hamilton, Art of Modern Times, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), reproduced

Edmund Burke Feldman, Art as Image and Idea, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967), reproduced in b/w p. 154

Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1968), catalogue no. 54, reproduced p. 32

Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A History of American Art [2nd ed.], Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1968), reproduced

Barbara Rose, American Painting: The Twentieth Century, Skira (New York, NY, 1969), reproduced p. 27

American Painting, 1900-1970, Time-Life Books (New York, NY, 1970), reproduced

Forerunners of American Abstraction, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1970)

Emily Wasserman, The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century, McCall Collection of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1970), reproduced plate 2B

Abraham A. Davidson, Beginnings of Modernism in American Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1971), reproduced

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), no. 143

Sam Hunter, American Art of the 20th Century, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1972), reproduced p. 120

Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", The Magazine Antiques (November 1972), vol. CII, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 877, repr. p. 878, fig. 4

Richard J. Boyle, "The Second Half of the 19th century", The Genius of American Painting, ed. John Wilmerding, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, England, 1973), reproduced p. 250

Jean Lipman, Rediscovery: Jurgan Frederick Huge (1809-1878), Archives of American Art (New York) (New York, NY, 1973), reproduced p. 6

Marshall B. Davidson, The Artist's America, American Heritage Publishing Co. (New York, NY, 1973)

James Guimond, "After Imagism", The Ohio Review (Fall 1973), vol. XV, no. 1, p. 9, reproduced p. 10, fig. 1

Shirley Glubok, The Art of America in the Early Twentieth Century, MacMillan (New York, NY, 1974), p. 23, reproduced p. 23

Janet Cox, "Color in Art", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, June 1974), vol. 76, no. 10, pp. 28-39, reproduced in color p. 36

James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), p. 78, reproduced in color p. 79, no. 38

Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1975), illustrated p. 62; pp. 72, 95

"[Unidentified article]", American Artist (January 1976), reproduced

Martin Friedman, "[Interview with Charles Sheeler]", Archives of American Art Journal (1976), vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 15-19, reproduced in b/w p. 17

John Wilmerding, "Harvard and American Art", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 490-495, p. 495, fig. 4

Susan Fillin Yeh, "Charles Sheeler's 'Upper Deck' ", Arts Magazine (January 1979), vol. LIII, no. 5, p. 90-94, reproduced

Les Realismes: 1919-1939, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France, 1980), reproduced in color p. 241; checklist, p. 523

Susan Fillin Yeh, "Charles Sheeler and the Machine Age", (Thesis, City University of New York, 1981), University Microfilm, Chapter 4

Jacques Lassaigne and Pierre Daix, Les Grandes Figures de l'entre-deux-guerres, Skira (Geneva, Switzerland, 1982), vol. 4, p. 72, reproduced in color p. 70

Henry M. Sayre, The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL and Chicago, IL, 1983), reproduced in b/w p. 48

Gladys C. Fabre, Leger et l'esprit moderne, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France, 1983), p. 101; reproduced in b/w p. 102, fig. 24

Barbara Haskell, Ralston Crawford, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1985), pp. 51-52, reproduced in b/w p. 52

Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, exh. cat., Abbeville Press/Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1985), reproduced in color fig. 23, p. 38

Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA/New York, 1985), no. 232, p. 202, reproduced in b/w

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Norman Keyes, Jr., Charles Sheeler: the Photographs, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), reproduced in b/w fig. 61, p. 39

Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1987), n. 35, pps. 115-116; reproduced in color p. 117

"Machine Age", Bijutsu Techo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, May 1988), reproduced in color p.33

Nathan Goldstein, Design and Composition, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989), reproduced in b/w fig. 3.10, p. 65

Donald Goddard, American Painting, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1990), reproduced in color p. 200

Helen Gardner and Horst de la Croix, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (San Diego, CA, 1991), reproduced in color no. 22-69, p. 1013

Karen Lucic, Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine, Reaktion Books (London, England, 1991), reproduced in color no. 34

Edmund Burke Feldman, Varieties of Visual Experience, Art as Image and Idea, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1992), reproduced in b/w p. 188

Edward Lucie-Smith, Art and Civilization, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1992), reproduced in b/w p. 495, fig. 28.3

Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts/Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft (London, England and Prestel, 1993), no. 51, checklist p. 479, reproduced in color

Gail Stavitsky, Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1994), reproduced as frontispiece, text pps.23-24

Edward Lucie-Smith, Visual Arts in the 20th Century, Laurence King (1996), repr. in b/w p. 130 (no. 4.25)

James Cuno et al, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA and Englewood, NJ, 1996), pp. 196-7

James M. Dennis, Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton,, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1998), p.221, p. 222, fig. 133, b&w repro.

Seiyo Bijutsukan [The History of Western Art], Shogakukan Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), p. 1025, repr. in color

James H. Maroney Jr., "Charles Sheeler Reveals the Machinery of His Soul", American Art, National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C., Summer 1999), vol. 13, no. 2, pp.27-56, p. 35; fig. 6

Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/University of California Press (Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 2006), pp. 81-84, fig. 5

Constance Kimmerle, Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical, James A. Michener Art Museum (Philadelphia, 2008), p. 33, fig. 18
Exhibition History: Unidentified Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1930

39th Annual Exhibition, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932

An Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield and Charles Sheeler, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, 01/12/1935 - 02/02/1935, no. 19

Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 01/01/1939 - 12/31/1939

Sources of Modern Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1939 - 04/01/1939; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/01/1939 - 05/31/1939

Unidentified Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1941, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/08/1941 - 01/23/1941

Unidentified Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 1944, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 05/01/1944 - 09/30/1944

Unidentified Exhibition, Currier Gallery, 1948, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, 01/01/1948 - 01/31/1948

The Development of American Painting in the Twentieth Century, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 01/20/1949 - 01/31/1949; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/01/1949 - 02/28/1949; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 03/01/1949 - 03/31/1949; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/01/1949 - 05/31/1949; Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, 06/01/1949 - 06/30/1949

Revolution and Tradition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 11/01/1951 - 01/31/1952

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; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 04/07/1955 - 04/30/1955; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 05/08/1955 - 06/08/1955

Americans of Our Times, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1956 - 09/12/1956

20th Anniversary Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 01/08/1957 - 02/10/1957

American National Exhibition, Unknown venue, Moscow, Moscow, 07/25/1959 - 09/05/1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/20/1959 - 11/08/1959

The Precisionist View in American Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 11/13/1960 - 12/25/1960

The Quest of Charles Sheeler, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 03/17/1963 - 04/14/1963

200 Years of American Painting, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 04/01/1964 - 05/31/1964

Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1965, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 01/01/1965 - 03/31/1965

Festival of the Creative Arts, White House, Washington, 06/14/1965 - 06/14/1965

Unidentified Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1965, National Gallery of Art, Landover, 06/15/1965 - 07/11/1965

Fifty Years of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 06/06/1966 - 07/31/1966

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

Forerunners of American Abstraction, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 11/16/1971 - 01/09/1972

American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974

Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

American Modern Art Between the Two World Wars, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 06/01/1979 - 08/31/1978; Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zurich, 08/01/1979 - 10/31/1979; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 11/15/1979 - 12/31/1979

Les Realismes, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 75191 Paris, 12/17/1980 - 04/20/1981

Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

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

American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992

American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 05/08/1993 - 07/25/1993; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 09/17/1993 - 12/12/1993

The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001

Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

Re-View: S118 European & American Art since 1900, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 07/01/2013

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