MacDougal Alley
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MacDougal Alley
192420th century
665 x 520 mm (26.2 x 20.5 in.)
Charles Sheeler, American, (1883–1965)
Alternative title:
Houses, Washington Square
Object Type:
paintings
Medium and Support:
Oil painting on canvas
Marks:
Signed, lower left: “Sheeler 1924”
Bibliography:
Vienna, Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Neue sachlichkeit und realismus (catalog for exhibition 21 April – 24 July 1977), cat. no. 159, reproduced p. 96; West Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 9 Nov. – 28 Dec. 1980, America: Traum und Depression, 1920/40 (catalog for exhibition 9 November – 28 December 1980), cat. 295, reproduced p. 113; Karen Tsujimoto, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), cat. 96; Visions of Tomorrow (Japanese touring exhibition), cat. 8, color reproduction; Gail Stavitsky, Precisionism in America (New York: Abrams, 1995), cat. 12, reproduced p. 81 (caption has date as “1922”); Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill, American Vanguards (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1996) pp. 24, 30, 35; Elizabeth Sussman, City of Ambition: Artists & New York (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, 1996), p. 51.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Jordan, 1951
Accession Number:
1951.4.1
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- New York City - TGN 7007567 (“New York” preferred, “New York City” display; retained “City” for clarity)
- Northeastern United States - TGN 4011496 (general region): The term typically refers to New England and the northern Atlantic seaboard, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
Dimensions
- object Dimensions: 665 x 520 mm (26.2 x 20.5 in.)
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Credit Caption
Charles Sheeler, American, (1883–1965) . MacDougal Alley, 1924. Oil painting on canvas. object : 665 x 520 mm (26.2 x 20.5 in.). DAC accession number 1951.4.1. Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Jordan, 1951.