Lot 76 : Charles Sheeler 1883-1965 , Study for Bucks County Barn watercolor and conte crayon on paper
Auction Location: United States of America - 2008
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Title:
Charles Sheeler 1883-1965 , Study for Bucks County Barn watercolor and conte crayon on paper
Description:
signed Charles Sheeler and dated 1918 , l.r. watercolor and conte crayon on paper
Dimensions:
measurements 20 by 25 1/2 in. alternate measurements (50.8 by 64.8 cm)
Provenance:
Edith Halpert (gift from the artist)
Estate of Edith Halpert (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, March 15, 1973, lot 102)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Notes:
An excerpt from the Bruce Museum wall text, where the present work was exhibited in 1997, states: "Charles Sheeler turned to modernism for a new vocabulary to express the qualities of modern life. In his famous series of Bucks County Barns he reduced this typical American scene to the essential structure of line and plane. He wrote of this series: 'I sought to reduce natural forms to the borderline of abstraction, retaining only those forms which I believe to be indispensable to the design of the picture ...' The wavy black line in this example is unique in the series and is intended to be an abstract simplifier of the accidental properties of weather."
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