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CHARLES SHEELER 1883-1965 Steam Turbine, 1939 Oil on canvas, 22 X 18 (55.88 x 45.72 cm.) Signed, lower right Museum purchase, 950-0-111 In 1938, Charles Sheeler was commissioned by Fortune magazine to produce six paintings extolling America's industrial power. Sheeler visited power stations across the nation, photographing selected sites which became the basis for the paintings.' These ...

Importance Charles Sheeler was born in Philadelphia in 1883 and studied in the School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadlphia. Although he supported himself at that time as an architectural photographer, he dabled in vernacular art and architecture during the weeekends. During the 1920s, Sheeler was associated with a group of painters called the Precisionists, ...