Collection: Charles Sheeler

Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.

His formative teachers included Thomas Pollock Anshutz. Notable paintings include Suspended Power. His practice spanned figurative art. He belongs to the Art Deco & Interwar Modernism movement.