Images(2)

California Industrial #2

Artist Charles Sheeler (American, 1883 - 1965)

Date1957

MediumTempera on paperboard

DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 x 8 5/16 in. (15.6 x 21.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. (37.5 x 41.3 cm)
Frame: 15 3/4 x 17 1/2 x 1/2 in. (40 x 44.5 x 1.3 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.108

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: Sheeler 57

Inscribedverso on backing board: California Industrial–1957 / Charles Sheeler

Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: 20th Century American Galleries (112), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 – present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13 – May 5, 2013; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005; Early 20th Century American Works on Paper, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, May 9–June 8, 1984; Exhibitions 20th Century Art from Area Collections, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., December 7, 1980 – January 18, 1981.ProvenanceThe Downtown Gallery, New York, 1957 Mr. and Mrs. Archie Burack, East Longmeadow, Mass., by 1958 Lewis Shepard, Worcester, Mass., 1984 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 1984 Acquired in 1984 from Barbara Mathes Gallery, New YorkPublished References20th Century Art from Area Collections, (Springfield, Mass.: Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 1980), n.p. Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 363. Dochterman, Lillian Natalie,“The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler” (Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1963), appendix A (Catalogue of the Works of Charles Sheeler, 1904–1959): 541 (ill., cat. no. 57.372). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 68, 69, 75n23, 202 (ill. 68, 202).