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...Fine Arts, was born in Indiana and adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong on that point...
...Sheeler, born in 1883, was in his late 20s when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where...
...have come to value photography more and more," says Charles Sheeler, "for those things which it alone can accomplish rather than to discredit it for the things which can only be achieved through another medium...
...London, an exhibition of contemporary U. S. painters that included the work of Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...
...Screw, which Critic Henry McBride of the New York Sun considered ''among the most memorable drawings to have been produced anywhere in this modern period." His experiments with cubist designs in architectural subjects have the neatness but none of the photographic quality of paintings by Charles Sheeler. Nobody has surpassed Demuth's serene water colors of flowers, painted in his Lancaster garden...