American Landscape

Charles Sheeler · 1930

Before you is American Landscape — a painting by the American artist Charles Sheeler, nineteen thirty. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. In the picture, look for the factory. Sheeler was part of the Precisionism movement.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 24 x 31" (61 x 78.8 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in Gallery 511: Bauhaus Workshop Building from Below. Oblique View

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Power Station, Anonymous Sculpture, Steel Elevator and Shed - near Abilene, Texas, Lodz, Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story

More by Charles Sheeler here: Bucks County Barn, Stairwell, Williamsburg