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From a new orange and white steel tower, 410 feet high and clean-cut as a Sheeler painting, Columbia Broadcasting System's WABC, without any increase in power, last week made itself heard with doubled intensity over a large section of the Eastern seaboard...
...together seven highly rated paintings by well-known American painters (Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Peter Blume, Bernard Karfiol, Julian Levi, Katherine Schmidt, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer) that had never found a buyer...
...first rate loan exhibition of U. S. art and a selection of 50 paintings from its own permanent collection. Since 1928 the Association and the University of Nebraska (together spending some $5,000 a year) have bought from similar shows the work of Robert Henri, John Steuart Curry, Charles Sheeler, Grant Wood, Morris Kantor, Leon Kroll, Edward Hopper, William Glackens, Reginald Marsh, many another artist...
Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...
...black and white reproductions-and television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...