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Charles Sheeler

♂  American, 1883–1965

Charles Sheeler has been in 85 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1930 and 1986.

85 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans

3 December 1930 to 20 January 1931

Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers

3–31 May 1932

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932

31 October 1932 to 11 February 1933

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Fruit and Flower Paintings

13–31 May 1933

Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

19 November 1934 to 20 January 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan

4 June to 24 September 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

14 January to 16 February 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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American Art Portfolio

14 September to 12 October 1936

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Charles Burchfield and Maurice Prendergast, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography 1839–1937

17 March to 18 April 1937

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan

23 June to 4 November 1937

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Paintings for Paris

8 November to 13 December 1937

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, among others, were involved.

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Transitions and Contrasts in Painting and Sculpture

1 December 1937 to 7 January 1938

Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Charles Sheeler and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Art

24 May to 31 July 1938

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Charles Sheeler

2 October to 1 November 1939

Charles Sheeler and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

23 October 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

6 May to 30 April 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Image of Freedom

29 October 1941 to 1 February 1942

Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ansel Adams and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Photographs at $10

3 December 1941 to 4 January 1942

Charles Sheeler, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: American Drawings

18 February to 5 April 1942

Charles Sheeler, William Zorach, Jules Pascin and Eugene Berman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists

10 February to 21 March 1943

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Dorothy C. Miller, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

15 April to 1 June 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection

10 June to 31 August 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Edward Steichen, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New York Private Collections

20 July to 12 September 1948

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Paintings from the Museum Collection

23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club

15 March to 17 April 1949

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Morris Graves, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photography

9 May to 4 July 1950

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Christmas Photographs

29 November 1951 to 6 January 1952

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

23 June to 4 October 1953

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Selections from the Art Lending Service

5–24 October 1955

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection

2 April to 31 May 1959

William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits from the Museum Collection

4 May to 18 September 1960

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition America Seen: Between The Wars

25 April to 7 August 1961

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, George Grosz and John Marin, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art in the Mirror

22 November 1966 to 6 February 1967

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition From the McAlpin Collection

14 December 1966 to 12 February 1967

Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

21 December 1966 to 5 March 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Manhattan Observed

22 March to 1 July 1968

William S. Lieberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

24 December 1969 to 1 March 1970

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photo Eye of the 20s

4 June to 8 September 1970

Max Ernst, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

11 May to 19 October 1971

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawn in America

1 March to 29 May 1972

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

18 October 1972 to 7 January 1973

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works on Paper

7 March to 4 June 1973

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

27 December 1973 to 24 February 1974

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1913–1963

3 December 1974 to 3 March 1975

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In the Twenties

21 March to 15 June 1975

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

20 August to 14 November 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Artists and Writers

10 July to 3 October 1978

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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New York/New York

11 September to 13 November 1978

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1–16 March 1982

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

15 November 1984 to 3 March 1985

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980

2 October 1985 to 7 January 1986

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

18 December 1985 to 20 May 1986

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.