Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
CHARLES SHEELER | SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES OF THE WEST BANK OF THE PASSAIC RIVER, NEW JERSEY
Auction Closed
October 3, 04:15 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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CHARLES SHEELER
1883-1965
SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES OF THE WEST BANK OF THE PASSAIC RIVER, NEW JERSEY
a group of 3 photographs, each mounted, credited, titled, and dated, possibly by the photographer, in crayon and with annotations in pencil, on the reverse, circa 1928 (3)
Each approximately 7⅜ by 9⅜ in. (18.7 by 23.8 cm.)
The photographer to poet William Carlos Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey
By descent to the present owner
Charles Sheeler and William Carlos Williams became lifelong friends after meeting in the early 1920s. Around 1928 Williams asked Sheeler to document the west bank of the Passaic River near the poet/physician's house in Rutherford. New Jersey would feature prominently in Williams' later work, such as his 1938 publication Life Along the Passaic River. These pictures of modest, vernacular architecture, which come directly from the Williams family, offer a counterpoint to Sheeler's industrial images of the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant made in fall 1927 and his majestic photographs of Chartres Cathedral taken in 1929.