Word: sheeler
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Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
...Doorway" was the unlucky picture and Charles Sheeler, a modern painter who specializes in photographic effects in his works, was the hapless artist who deserved a much better fate than to become a bone of contention...
When the exhibit was opened to the public gaze for the first time on Tuesday morning, Sheeler's picture was hanging patiently in the second gallery to the left of the entrance on the first floor of the Museum. It was not until an inquisitive visitor wondered at the position of the signature in the upper left-hand corner that people began to get suspicious...
...faction dubbed themselves the "Upsidedownians" and firmly maintained that the true quality of Sheeler's art was only expressed when the painting was upside down. Another faction--the "Rightsideupsians"--put up a determined stand in favor of the artist, and decreed that the picture was not a picture unless it was in its correct position...
...faction dubbed themselves the "Upsidedownians" and firmly maintained that the true quality of Sheeler's art was only expressed when the painting was upside down. Another faction--the "Rightsideupsians"--put up a determined stand in favor of the artist, and decreed that the picture was not a picture unless it was in its correct position...