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"tombstone": "Bucks County Barn, 1915. Charles Sheeler (American, 1883\u20131965). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.7 x 18.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1984.62",
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"title": "Bucks County Barn",
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"measurements": "Image: 23.7 x 18.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"Zeiss [or Geiss]\"",
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"id": 309849,
"title": "Year in Review for 1984",
"description": "Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).",
"opening_date": "1985-04-03T05:00:00"
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"id": 310243,
"title": "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art",
"description": "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).",
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"id": 311875,
"title": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1996-11-24T05:00:00"
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"id": 194095,
"title": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).",
"opening_date": "2007-06-24T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: \"Year in Review 1984,\" CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 202, no. 69, repr. p. 194.",
"opening_date": "1985-04-03T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, January 24 - April 9, 1989: \"The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art.\"",
"opening_date": "1989-01-24T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: \"Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art.\"",
"opening_date": "1997-02-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, (April 6-June 22, 1997); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, (August 23-November 2, 1997); Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, (December 19, 1997-March 1, 1998): \"Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition,\" catalogue by Karen Lucic, repr. p. 74.",
"opening_date": "1997-04-06T00:00:00"
},
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); \"Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no exhibition catalogue.",
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"description": "Better known for his paintings in the American Precionist style, Charles Sheeler was a pioneering and influential photographer. Mainly self-taught, from 1912 until 1945 he occasionally used commercial photography as a means of support. Bucks County Barn, an early, important work representative of Sheeler's photographic style, features a geometric composition tending toward abstraction, sharp focus, and subtle tonal range. Taken at a time when creative photography was still dominated by the blurred, atmospheric style of pictorialism, the picture contains many of the formal elements that would later characterize contemporary photography.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163\u2013207.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 202, no. 69; Reproduced: p. 194",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 318",
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"biography": "Charles Sheeler American, 1883-1965\r\n\r\nPhiladelphia-born Charles Sheeler was a well-known precisionist painter and photographer. After studying at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia (1900-3), he spent the next three years as a student of painter William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Around 1910 he took up photography as a way to support himself.\r\n\tSheeler began as an architectural photographer, documenting buildings for Philadelphia architects, but was soon taking pictures of paintings and other works of art. He continued to paint (in 1913 a group of his works were exhibited in the famous Armory Show in New York) and to photograph, often using his photographs as the basis for paintings. In 1917 his photographs were included in a three-person show along with Paul Strand and Morton Schamberg at Marius de Zayas's Modern Gallery in New York.\r\n\tTwo years later Sheeler moved to New York and in 1920 collaborated with Paul Strand on the avant-garde film Manhatta (originally titled New York the Magnificent). In 1923 he began working as a staff photographer for Cond\u00e9 Nast publications. Four years later he received his most important commercial commission when Ford Motor Company hired him to photograph its River Rouge plant. A powerful series of images celebrating American industry resulted and were widely published. They also served as an inspiration for a number of his paintings.\r\n\tIn 1939 a small group of Sheeler's photographs were included in a retrospective of his work organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Over the next decade he worked as staff photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and focused primarily on painting in his own work, especially during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1959, after suffering a stroke, Sheeler stopped painting and photographing; he died six years later from a second stroke. M.M.",
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