Charles Sheeler
Lily, Mount Kisco, 1918-19
Gelatin silver contact print on warm-toned, matte surface paper
9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Printed by the photographer, c. 1919. Flush-mounted. Accompanied by a backboard fragment, with annotation 'by Charles Sheeler property of Dorothy Miller', in pencil, and with a typed MoMA exhibition label,...
Printed by the photographer, c. 1919. Flush-mounted. Accompanied by a backboard fragment, with annotation "by Charles Sheeler property of Dorothy Miller", in pencil, and with a typed MoMA exhibition label, stamped "Dorothy C. Miller / 12 East 8 Street / New York, N. Y. 10003". Exhibited: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Charles Sheeler, October - November 1939, cat. no. 116.
Literature
The Elite and the Popular Appeal of Charles Sheeler (New York: James Maroney, 1986), p. 54-55 [a print now in the collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum]; Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., & Norman Keyes, Jr., Charles Sheeler: The Photographs (Boston, 1987), pl. 8 [Lane Collection print]; Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Gilles Mora, & Karen E. Haas, The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist (Boston, 2002), p. 47 [Lane Collection print]; William A. Ewing, Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography (London, 1991), pl. 72 [Amon Carter Museum print].1
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