Charles Sheeler
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Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler i
Charles Sheeler standing next to a window. c. 1910.
Still Life (1925), one of Sheeler's earlier works, and one of several of his still life paintings
Connecticut Barns (1934), created by Sheeler for the Public Works of Art Project
The monument of Charles Sheeler (and Musya) in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Morton Livingston Schamberg
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Morton Livingston Schamberg was an American modernist painter and photographer. He was one of the first American artists to explore the aesthetic qualities of industrial subjects. Schamberg is conside
Charles Sheeler
…a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a five dollar Brownie. Early in his career, he was greatly impacted by the death of his close friend Morton Livingston Schamberg during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Schamberg's painting had focused heavily on machinery and technology, a theme that featured prominently in…
Self-portrait by Morton Schamberg, c. 1913.
Telephone (1916). Oil on canvas, Columbus Museum of Art.
God (1917), Dada sculpture by Schamberg and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, photographed by Schamberg
Abstract Landscape, c. 1910–1913