Artist Monograph

Charles Sheeler, American

American, 1883–1965

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Photography	29	72.5%
Lithography	4	10%
Oil Painting	2	5%
Other Media	2	5%
Gouache	2	5%
Drawing	1	2.5%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Photography	29	72.5%
Drawings & Prints	9	22.5%
Painting & Sculpture	2	5%

Production by Decade

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

Classification Types

Photograph — 29
Drawing — 5
Print — 4
Painting — 2

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	32	80%
Medium (30–100 cm)	8	20%

Range: 15.2 cm → 78.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1934	1
1935	4
1940	4
1941	3
1942	4
1943	1
1956	1
1959	2
1968	7
1969	7
1985	2
1993	1
2001	2
2016	1

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 5, 511" — 1
"MoMA, Floor 5, 519" — 1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 40 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Bucks County Barn Photograph Acc. 1797.1968	1914-17	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 5/16" (23.5 × 18.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
Doylestown House, Stairway, Open Door Photograph Acc. 98.1993	1914-17	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 6 15/16" (24.2 × 17.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Doylestown House, Stairwell Photograph Acc. 119.1985	1914-17	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 6 5/8" (24.2 × 16.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
White Barn, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Photograph Acc. 342.1959	1914-17	Gelatin silver print	10 1/4 × 12 3/4" (26.1 × 32.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Side of White Barn, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Photograph Acc. 440.1941	1915	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 9 11/16" (19.4 × 24.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	David H. McAlpin Fund
African Musical Instrument Photograph Acc. 1857.2001	November 1917	Gelatin silver print	9 1/8 × 6 3/4" (23.2 × 17.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Charles Sheeler and Samuel M. Kootz, by exchange
African Sculpture Photograph Acc. 408.1969	1917-18	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 9/16" (24.2 × 19.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Barn Drawing Acc. 212.1940	1917	Conté crayon on paper	4 1/4 x 6" (10.8 x 15.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Barn Abstraction Print Acc. 385.1956	1918	Lithograph	composition: 8 1/4 x 18 1/2" (20.9 x 47 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 x 25 9/16" (50.2 x 65 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Tulips and Etruscan Vase Drawing Acc. 149.1935	1922	Pencil on paper	21 1/4 x 16" (54 x 40.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Face Mask (Gunye Ge), Dan style, Côte d’Ivoire Photograph Acc. 1802.1968	1923	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 1/2" (24.5 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
Self-Portrait Drawing Acc. 146.1935	1923	Conté crayon, gouache, and pencil on paper	19 3/4 x 25 5/8" (50.1 X 65.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Yachts Print Acc. 1266.1940	1924	Lithograph	composition: 7 7/8 x 9 13/16" (20 x 24.9 cm); sheet: 11 7/16 x 16" (29 x 40.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Delmonico Building Print Acc. 1267.1940	1926	Lithograph	composition: 9 3/4 x 6 11/16" (24.8 x 17.0 cm); sheet: 14 7/8 x 11 3/8" (37.9 x 28.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Bleeder Stacks, Ford Plant, Detroit Photograph Acc. 399.1942	1927	Gelatin silver print	9 7/16 × 7 1/2" (24 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Samuel M. Kootz
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company Photograph Acc. 224.1941	1927	Gelatin silver print, printed 1941	9 3/8 × 7 1/2" (23.9 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Lincoln Kirstein
Ford Plant, River Rouge, Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher Photograph Acc. 1858.2001	November 1927	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 9/16" (24.1 × 19.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Horace W. Goldsmith Fund through Robert B. Menschel and gift of Lincoln Kirstein, by exchange
Industrial Series #1 Print Acc. 1265.1940	1928	Lithograph	composition: 8 1/8 x 11 1/8" (20.7 x 28.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Buttresses, Chartres Cathedral Photograph Acc. 406.1969	1929	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 9/16" (24.4 × 19.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Chartres Cathedral Photograph Acc. 401.1942	1929	Gelatin silver print	9 9/16 × 7 9/16" (24.3 × 19.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Samuel M. Kootz
American Landscape Painting Acc. 166.1934	1930	Oil on canvas	24 x 31" (61 x 78.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Cactus and Photographer's Lamp, New York Photograph Acc. 404.1942	1931	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 6 5/8" (23.5 × 16.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Samuel M. Kootz
Bucks County Barn Painting Acc. 145.1935	1932	Oil on board	23 7/8 x 29 7/8" (60.6 x 75.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Of Domestic Utility Drawing Acc. 147.1935	1933	Conté crayon on paper	25 x 19 3/8" (63.5 x 49.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Stairwell, Williamsburg Photograph Acc. 341.1959	1935	Gelatin silver print	9 5/16 × 6" (23.6 × 15.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Edward Steichen
Untitled Photograph Acc. 1836.2015	1937	Gelatin silver print	7 1/4 × 6 1/8" (18.4 × 15.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill
Arrangement Photograph Acc. 403.1942	1938	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 5/16" (19.1 × 23.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Samuel M. Kootz
Boulder Dam Photograph Acc. 223.1941	1939	Gelatin silver print, printed 1941	6 7/8 × 9 1/4" (17.5 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Wheels Photograph Acc. 41.1943	1939	Gelatin silver print	6 5/8 × 9 5/8" (16.8 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Industrial Architecture Drawing Acc. 957.1983	1949	Gouache on board	17 1/2 x 14" (44.5 x 35.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation
Rockefeller Center, New York Photograph Acc. 401.1969	1950	Gelatin silver print	8 9/16 × 6 1/2" (21.8 × 16.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Skyscrapers, New York Photograph Acc. 402.1969	1950	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 6 7/16" (23.9 × 16.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Skyscrapers, New York Photograph Acc. 403.1969	1950	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 6 5/16" (23.5 × 16 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Skyscrapers, New York Photograph Acc. 404.1969	1950	Gelatin silver print	7 13/16 × 6 7/16" (19.8 × 16.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Skyscrapers, New York Photograph Acc. 405.1969	1950	Gelatin silver print	6 3/16 × 9 3/16" (15.7 × 23.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Beech Tree Photograph Acc. 1798.1968	1951	Gelatin silver print	8 × 5 3/16" (20.4 × 13.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
Beech Tree Photograph Acc. 1800.1968	1951	Gelatin silver print	7 15/16 × 5 3/8" (20.1 × 13.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
Shaker House, Lebanon, New York Photograph Acc. 1795.1968	1951	Gelatin silver print	7 7/16 × 9 1/2" (18.9 × 24.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
United Nations Secretariat Photograph Acc. 1794.1968	1951	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 6 1/4" (23.8 × 15.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin
Meta-Mold, Cedarburg, Wisconsin Photograph Acc. 1796.1968	1952	Gelatin silver print	7 3/4 × 5 3/8" (19.4 × 13.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of David H. McAlpin