
Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell
Windows
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1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell
Charles Sheeler
(1883 - 1965)
Windows
signed Sheeler and dated -1951 (lower right); signed Charles Sheeler, dated -1951 and titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
32 by 20 ⅛ in.
81.3 by 51.1 cm.
Executed in 1951.
The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist on 12 October 1951)
The Northern Trust Company, Chicago (acquired from the above on 18 October 1951)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
University of California, Los Angeles Art Galleries; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Fort Worth Art Center (and traveling), Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1954, no. 38, p. 46
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Modern Times: Aspects of American Art, 1907-1956, 1986, p. 111, illustrated in color
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Counterpoint: Two Centuries of American Masters, 1990, no. 28, p. 49, illustrated
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Six American Modernists: Marsden Hartley, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, John Storrs, 1991, no. 83, p. 39, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Odakyu Museum; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art and Osaka, The Museum of Art, Kintetsu (and traveling), New York Realism–Past and Present, 1994, no. 32, illustrated in color on the cover and p. 75; pp. 74 and p. 164
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Streamlined: The Precisionist Impulse in American Art, 1995-96, no. 62, pp. 9 and 35; p. 11, illustrated in color
Lillian Natalie Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler, Dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1963, no. 51.321, p. 489, illustrated
Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler, New York, 1975, pl. 38, p. 167; p. 198, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Masterworks of American Art from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1989, p. 188
Robert Henkes, Themes in American Painting: A Reference Work to Common Styles and Genres, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1993, p. 83
Phaidon, ed., The Art Book, 1994, p. 426, illustrated in color
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, eds., A Companion to the City, Oxford, 2003, illustrated in color on the cover
Jane Bingham, Through Artists’ Eyes: Science and Technology, Chicago, 2006, p. 13
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Art Institute of Chicago and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, 2006-07, p. 130
Mark Rawlinson, Charles Sheeler: Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction, London and New York, 2007, p. 166
Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Fresh Widow: The Window in Art Since Matisse and Duchamp, 2012, fig. 3, p. 27, illustrated
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