Church Street El
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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Church Street El

1920
Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965) visual detail
ArtistCharles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965)
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Provenance

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1977-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

-1977

(Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

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(Harold Diamond, New York, NY) 1

Probably 1940-at least 1969

Elizabeth Lentz Horter [1900-1985], South Langhorne, PA

By 1930-probably 1940

Earl Horter [1880-1940], Philadelphia, PA 1

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (Harold Diamond, New York, NY) 1 Elizabeth Lentz Horter [1900-1985], South Langhorne, PA Earl Horter [1880-1940], Philadelphia, PA 1

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Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). American Realism, 1920 - 1940. Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Berlin 1000, Germany (organizer) (November 9-December 28, 1980). The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989). Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (March 7-May 16, 1999). Der kühle Blick. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (organizer) (June 1-September 2, 2001). Charles Sheeler: Mediums and Messages. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (May 7-September 4, 2006); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 10-May 6, 2007). Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (organizer) (October 28, 2011-January 22, 2012); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (February 24-May 27, 2012); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-September 16, 2012). The Cult of the Machine: Precision in American Art. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (March 24-August 12, 2018); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (September 16, 2018-January 6, 2019). New York, Whitney Studio Galleries, Exhibition of Selected Works by Charles Sheeler (1 March-31 March 1924). Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art (24 January-9 April 1989) Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection, (7 March-16 May 1999), plate 78, p. 122, also included two footnotes concerning Sheeler and his relationship to Horter (p. 61), and pp. 173, 180-181, 184. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-1950 (23 April-22 August 1999), cat. no. 273, illus. p. 148. Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Der kühle Blick: Realismus der Zwanzigerjahre in Europa und Amerika (1 June-2 September 2001), illus. p. 311. National Gallery of Art (5/7/2006-9/4/2006), Art Institute of Chicago (10/15/2006-1/7/2007), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, MH de Young Museum (2/10/2007-5/6/2007): "Charles Sheeler: Mediums and Messages" Brooklyn Museum of Art (10/28/2011 - 1/22/2012), Dallas Museum of Art (2/24/2012 - 5/27/2012), and Cleveland Museum of Art (7/1/2012 - 9/16/2012): "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties", Fig. 105, p. 143. The Collection of Earl Horter. Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 17-1-March 13, 1934). Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Earl Horter of Philadelphia. The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (April 3 - April 26, 1934); no. 57 Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs. Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY (1939), no. 11, listed p. 46. Charles Sheeler. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (October 10-November 24 ,1968); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (January 10-February 16, 1969); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (March 11-April 27,1969); no. 24, illus. p. 39, mentioned briefly in essays by both Martin Friedman ("The Art of Charles Sheeler: Americana in a Vacuum") p. 40, and Bartlett Hayes ("Reminiscence") p. 70. Berlin, Academy of Fine Arts, America: Traum und Depression 1920-1940, (1980), pp. 109-137, illus. p. 89, pl. 8, cat. no. 292. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, (9 September-7 November 1982); traveled to Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Art Museum (6 December 1982-30 January 1983); Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art (28 February-25 April 1983); Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center (23 May-17 July 1983); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (15 August-9 October 1983), no. 92, plate 18 (also reproduced on cover), included essay by Karen Tsujimoto entitled "Charles Sheeler: Precisionist Painter and Modern Photographer," (pp. 73-85, 172-173) which discusses the CMA painting. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, (13 October 1987- 3 January 1988); traveled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (28 January-17 April 1988); Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art (15 May-10 July 1988), no. 16, p. 80, also included parts from essay by Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, "From the Eyes Inward: Paintings and Drawings by Charles Sheeler," (pp. 9-11, 36-37), which point out the fact that the CMA painting was derived from Manhatta.

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Capturing the soaring heights of New York City, this painting is a dramatic bird's-eye view of Broadway and Wall Street, showing a conglomeration of buildings at left and center, and the Church Street elevated train at right. Sheeler based his composition on an image from the short movie <em>Manhatta</em> (1920-21), which he made with the photographer Paul Strand. One of the first avant-garde American films, <em>Manhatta</em> celebrates the dynamic metropolis through a series of carefully composed shots of Lower Manhattan. As typical with Sheeler's work, the artist simplified forms and eliminated textures in <em>Church Street El</em> to concentrate on rhythmic interplay of shapes and color, and patterns of light and shadow.

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