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Flower Forms

Charles Sheeler

Date: 1917

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1987.33

Text Entries: Flower Forms is a rhythmic and simplified semi-abstraction of a still life that in many respects seems atypical of the Precisionist paintings-such as Bucks County Barn-commonly associated with Charles Sheeler. In the painting, however, Sheeler still achieves a high degree of realism, his intense representation evoking the flowers' internal physiology. In fact, the almost anatomical treatment of the flower theme strongly suggests Georgia O'Keeffe's later botanical paintings. Developments in such modern sciences as biochemistry may partially account for the efforts of the early modernist artists to search out underlying forms. Certainly it is consistent with Sheeler's desire to probe beneath the surface of forms and to use art to increase our capacity for perception.

Yachts

Charles Sheeler

Date: 1924

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1996.50

Text Entries: Gordon, M. "A Catalogue of the Prints of Charles Sheeler." Photo/Print Bulletin I (1976). Driscoll, John P. Charles Sheeler, The Works on Paper. (exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art). University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University, 1974. No. 25, pp. 56, 74. Jacobowitz, Ellen S. and George H. Marcus. American Graphics, 1860–1940: Selected from the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. No. 69, pp. 72–73. Master Prints of Five Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection. (exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts). Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1990. No. 92, p. 111.

Flower Forms

Charles Sheeler

Date: between 1917 and 1926

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Object number: 2015.3

Text Entries: John Quinn, 1870–1925: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Sculpture. Huntington, New York: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926. ill. p. 181 (black & white, as Flowers and Forms). (possibly reproduced). Jensen, Kristen, ed., Charles Sheeler: Fashion Photography, and Sculptural Form. (exh. cat. James A. Michener Art Museum) Doylestown, Pennsylvania: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2017. Checklist p. 219.