Charles Sheeler

Provenance:
John Quinn, New York.
The Estate of John Quinn.
American Art Association Inc., New York, New York, Sale of February 9, 1927, Lot 5.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Earl Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Lentz Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Estate of Elizabeth Lentz Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By descent in the family to the present owner.

Exhibited:
University Park, Pennsylvania, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University; and New York City, Terry Dintenfass, Inc., Charles Sheeler: The Works on Paper, February 10 - April 20, 1974 (illus. p. 11 in the accompanying exhibition catalogue).
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and his Collection, 1999 (illustrated p. 120, pl. 76 in the accompanying exhibition catalogue).

Literature:
Lillian Natalie Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Works of Charles Sheeler, PhD dissertation, State University of Iowa, August 1963, no. 16.046, p. 83.
Susan Fillin-Yeh, Charles Sheeler and the Machine Age, PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 1981, pp. 99, 125, 216.
Martin Friedman, Charles Sheeler, New York, 1975, pp. 30-31, illus.
Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition, New York, 1928, pp. 66-67.
James Maroney, The Elite and the Popular Appeal in the Art of Charles Sheeler, New York, 1986, illus.

Note:
The present work is a preliminary drawing for a painting of the same name in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (accession number 1931.100).