Variations in Red
Variations in Red
Artist
Charles Sheeler
(American, 1883-1965)
Date1949
DimensionsPainting: 15 1/8 × 23 in. (38.3 × 58.4 cm)
Frame: 25 3/4 × 33 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (65.4 × 85.7 × 6.4 cm)
Frame: 25 3/4 × 33 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (65.4 × 85.7 × 6.4 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1949.107
Not on View
Butler, Joseph T., "The American Way with Art," Connoisseur, vol. 170, no. 683, Jan. 1969, repr. p. 65.
Friedman, M., Charles Sheeler, New York, 1975, p. 141, repr. (col.) p. 196.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 98, pl. 228.
Roberts, Marie MacDonnell, The Artist's Design: Probing the Hidden Order, Walnut Creek, CA, 1993, p. 84, repr. (col.).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, Downtown Gallery, The Artist Speaks, 1951, no. 18.Toledo Museum of Art, 36th Annual, 1949, no. 68.
Houston, Contemporary Arts Association, 1951.
Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum 1901-1951, 1951.
Akron Art Institute, Artists in Architecture, 1952.
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Light and the Painter, 1952, no. 60.
New York, Downtown Gallery, Paintings, 1949 to 1951, by Charles Sheeler, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1954, no. 33.
M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA. 1954.
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, Charles Sheeler, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1954, no. 33.
Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX. 1955
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 1955.
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. 1955.
Munson, Williams, Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y. 1955.
Des Moines Art Center, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Current Painting Styles and Their Sources, 1958, repr. on cover.
Des Moines Art Center, The Painting of Light, 1960, no. 68.
East Lansing, Michigan State University, Kresge Art Center, American Art Since 1960, no. 68.
Allentown (PA) Art Museum, Charles Sheeler, Retrospective Exhibition, 1961, no. 39.
Washington, D. C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Charles Sheeler, 1968, no. 119, repr. p. 133.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1968.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 1968.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
Chicago, IL., Terra Museum of American Art. 1985-86.
Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art, Charles Sheeler in Andover: The Ballardvale Series, 1996.
Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, M.H.de Young Memorial Museum, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, 2006-2007, no. 44, p. 127, repr. p. 136 (col.).
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