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...Charles Sheeler, 78, was cited for the ''classical spirit, formal elegance and technical mastery" of his paintings...
Scarcely anyone would deny Sheeler these virtues. He is one of the few American artists who was a photographer as well as a painter, and some of his painting is difficult to tell from his photography...
...well-known Rolling Power, picturing the wheels of a steam locomotive, could be mistaken for a tightly composed close-up photograph. But gradually Sheeler came to believe that "a picture could have incorporated in it the structural design implied in abstraction and have a wholly realistic manner." Often picking for his subjects simple, linear masses-barns, bridges, machines-Sheeler drafted knife-sharp contours and smooth surfaces, sometimes with bright and unrealistic colors...
Edward Hopper's Sunlight in a Cafeteria (see color) was strictly old-school-tie abstraction-the tie being to reality. It proved once again that Hopper, 76, keeps as firm a grip on imaginary space as any abstract artist alive, still wrings poetry from its arrangement. Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe and Loren Maclver also scored for the older generation, and Stuart Davis' brassily old-fashioned abstraction, Pochade, was like a joyful bopping of the drums for Dixieland jazz, a great U.S. export of another era. Overall, the Whitney show testified that there is more substance...
...loan from Manhattan's Whitney Museum, 22 realistic paintings (among them: works by Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Maurice Sterne, Reginald Marsh Charles Sheeler) are on view in the ancient French Riviera château fortress of La Napoule. Sponsored by the La Napoul( Art Foundation-Henry Clews Memorial the show, titled "American Realism in the Twentieth Century," is aimed at bringing Europe "another page of American art history." Said one U.S. cultural attaché in France: "At last we have something to show Europeans besides abstract blotches and curlicues...