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...artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money, however, was Manhattan's Robert Philipp, who won first honorable mention ($400) with Dust to Dust, a dustless scene of mourners standing at an open grave...
...display, in charge of Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Faculty of Design, will continue until January 20, and includes works of Charles Sheeler, Isabel Bishop, Alexander Brook, John Marin, Franklin Watkins Georgia O'Keefe, Louis M. Eilshemius, Niles Spencer, Emil Ganso, Thomas Donnelly, Lucile Branch, and George A. Picken...
...Views. It is difficult to pick favorite artists of one who has bought so widely, but Mrs. Rockefeller's intimates know that she has two favorite views : one from her gallery window; the other a vista in Central Park. She has commissioned the dryly accurate Charles Sheeler to paint the latter, the more impressionistic Stefan Hirsch to do the gallery view...
Three outstanding purchases were made during the year. The first, a commission for a fresco entitled "Structure," was painted in one of the corridors of the Museum by Lewis W. Rubenstein '30. The other two were a drawing by Charles Sheeler, "Feline Felicity," and a "Portrait of Miss Grant," one of the rare works of the father of American art history, William Dunlap...
Detroit. Artist who has spent the most time with the most success portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint...