Lot 89 : Charles Sheeler
Auction Location: United States of America - 2001
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Description:
Charles Sheeler
(1883-1965)
BOULDER DAM
mounted, credited to the photographer, titled, and dated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1940, printed no later than 1941
6 1/4 by 9 1/4 in. 15.9 by 23.5 cm.
Provenance
Purchased from the photographer, 1941
Exhibited
Image of Freedom, October 1941 - January 1942
In 1938, Sheeler was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to make six paintings on the subject of American industrial power. Sheeler produced a series of about 20 photographs of Boulder Dam, his most extensive series on a single subject since his images of Chartres a decade earlier.
This photograph was one of the prize-winning images in the Museum's Image of Freedom contest and exhibition, in which photographers were asked to 'interpret a facet of the American spirit.' Of the 799 photographs entered, 95 were selected as prize- winners and bought by the Museum for $25 each. The photographer's identities were concealed while their entries were reviewed by a judging panel consisting of Ansel Adams, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Monroe Wheeler, James Thrall Soby, David McAlpin, Alfred Barr, Jr., and
A. Hyatt Mayor. (reverse)
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