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...Charles Sheeler...
...ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled art world...
From photography he learned that "light is the great designer." Whether praised as the father of the precisionists or derided as the head of the Frigidaire School, Sheeler never caused a stampede to the museums with his almost antiseptic canvases. But he did become one of the most accomplished...
...reticent man, Sheeler has often seemed as enamored of his powerful planes as more romantic artists were of their human models. He once spent six weeks photographing the Ford plant in Detroit, filled his home with the severe Shaker furniture that he loved to photograph...
Until he was halted by a stroke in 1959, Sheeler's working habits at his home in Irvington, N.Y., were as precise as his paintings. Often painting from photographs, he worked through the good light every day, meticulously turning out four or five oil paintings a year. Of the cold, uncluttered results he once said: "I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than the one which shows the marks of battle. An efficient army buries its dead...