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...young Philadelphia-born artist named Charles Sheeler took a trip to Paris, gazed at the Cubist experiments of Picasso and Braque, and came home an abstractionist. For a living he became a photographer, but his Art, which he spelled with a capital A, was safely outside the world his camera saw. Only two things bothered him: most people preferred the photographs...
...Soon Sheeler gave up trying to lead a double life between his canvases and his negatives, decided to see if he could paint reality even more clearly and cleanly than his camera did. It worked. Except for rather arbitrary color schemes, his fanatically realistic paintings looked just like photographs-retouched...
Last week Sheeler's first exhibition in five years opened in a Manhattan gallery. Sheeler, a knife-thin, steel-grey, bespectacled craftsman, works slowly to achieve his carefully balanced arrangements of reality, so it was not a big show-but each picture had a prim perfection. Most visitors acknowledged Sheeler's peculiar mastery, but were left a little cold...
Best and most revealing picture was The Artist Looks at Nature (lent by Chicago's Art Institute-see cut), which showed Sheeler in the daylight drawing a nighttime interior. The surrounding spring landscape was as neat and clean as a Quaker meetinghouse...
...Trio is written so badly. Much of it is clear, direct prose, with emphasis on a photographic clarity of detail. People, the objects in the professor's house and Ray's room, gestures appear with something of the shadowless quality of the paintings of Charles Sheeler. A promising second novel (her first: Young Man with a Horn-TIME, June 6, 1938), it is a good enough discussion of its subject to give readers reason to hope that Author Baker will write better ones...