Feb 17, 2004 - Sale 1996

Sale 1996 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 11,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
SHEELER, CHARLES (1883-1965)
"American Interior." Silver print, 81/2x7 inches (21.5x17.8 cm.), with Sheeler's title, signature and hand stamp on mount verso and handwritten notations on mount verso. Circa 1917

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This image is one of a series of paintings and photographs Sheeler completed of the "Doylestown House," in Bucks County, in 1917. Theodore Stebbins, Jr. and Norman Keyes, Jr. wrote of Sheeler's emerging aesthetic: "In that year he found his own spare, modern vision, and he developed the means of expressing it in various media, most notably in conte crayon and other means of drawing, and photography.