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Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Installation view of The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler at Craig F. Starr Gallery

Charles Sheeler Barns, 1918

Charles Sheeler
Barns, 1918
Lithograph
7 15/16 x 18 3/16 inches

Charles Sheeler Yachts, 1924

Charles Sheeler
Yachts, 1924
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 8 x 10 inches
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches
Edition of 35

Charles Sheeler Roses, 1924

Charles Sheeler
Roses, 1924
Lithograph on wove paper
16 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches
Edition of 35

Charles Sheeler Delmonico Building, 1926

Charles Sheeler
Delmonico Building, 1926
Lithograph
9 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches
Edition of 50

Charles Sheeler Industrial Series #1, 1928

Charles Sheeler
Industrial Series #1, 1928
Lithograph
Image: 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches.
Sheet: 16 x 11 1/2 inches
Edition of 25

Charles Sheeler Architectural Cadence, 1954

Charles Sheeler
Architectural Cadence, 1954
Screenprint in colors
7 3/4 x 10 inches
Edition of 100

Press Release

NEW YORK – Craig F. Starr Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Charles Sheeler Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne written by gallery directory Kristy Bryce, with an introduction by Carol Troyen. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Complete Graphic Work of Charles Sheeler showcasing all six prints Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) produced in his lifetime. The show runs from September 5 through October 4, 2008.

Each work on view engages a different motif of Sheeler’s iconic imagery. A Bucks County barn is the subject of his first print Barn Abstraction (1918) with its abstract, Cubist treatment of this traditional American structure. Roses (1924), a highly realistic and yet at the same time abstractly composed still life, depicts three roses in a delicate glass vase. Yachts of the same year stems from an unrealized collaboration with Paul Strand to make a film at the New York Yacht Club. Sheeler’s next two lithographs, Delmonico Building (1926), and Industrial Series #1 (1928), relate to photographic projects. His final print, Architectural cadences (1954), was made on the occasion of Sheeler’s retrospective exhibition of the Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles and was issued tipped in to the exhibition catalogue, examples of which are on display.

Sheeler trained in industrial drawing at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A leader of the American Modernist movement, he showed in the 1913 Armory Show and is closely associated with Precisionism. He was honored with a 1939 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and is an acknowledged master of American painting and photography.