Landscape
c. 1912
Painter, American, 1881 - 1918
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on composition board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 19.05 × 24.13 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
framed: 42.55 × 47.63 × 4.13 cm (16 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.93
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly (Downtown Gallery, New York); Joan B. Detweiler [Mrs. F.H. Detweiler];[1] gift 11 June 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Corcorcan Gallery accession notes, in NGA curatorial files. Mrs. Detweiler acquired the work through Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, New York.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 October - 29 December 1963, no catalogue, as by Charles Sheeler.
1978
The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unpublished checklist, as by Charles Sheeler.
1986
The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism in North American Art, 1900-1918, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 5 March - 11 May 1986,
1997
Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition, Allentown Art Museum, 2007, as Tree in Landscape by Charles Sheeler.
Bibliography
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 118, as by Charles Sheeler.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46633047