Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)


Barn Decorations (Hex Signs) tempera on plexiglass6 1/2 x 9 1/2in, image; 11 1/8 x 14 1/8in, overallPainted in 1959.
|ProvenanceThe artist.The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1959.Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York.Drs. Macia and Meyer Friedman, acquired from the above, 1978.Estate of the above.Sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 28, 2001, lot 142.Private collection, acquired from the above.Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.ExhibitedNew York, The Downtown Gallery, n.d.Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, American Art... 20th Century: Image to Abstraction, 1967, n.p. (as Barn Decorations).New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, n.d.New York, Babcock Galleries, Davis, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Sheeler, May 1-July 11, 2007, no. 10.New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modernist Masters, October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 28.LiteratureL.N. Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler, Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1963, pp. 551, 554.M. Friedman, B Hayes, and C. Millard, Charles Sheeler, Washington, D.C., 1968, p. 31, illustrated (as Hex Signs).M. Friedman, Charles Sheeler, New York, 1975, p. 188, illustrated (as Hex Signs).C. Troyen and E.E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987, p. 214.J. Goodrich, "Looking Back on an American Revolution," The New York Sun, vol. 123, no. 33, May 31, 2007, p. 22, frontispiece illustration.