Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965 (Personal Name)

Rourke, C. Charles Sheeler, c1938.

Charles Sheeler, 2017: title page (Charles Sheeler)

Wikipedia, May 30, 2017 (Charles Sheeler; Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883--May 7, 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer; he is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism developing a style of painting known as Precisionism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century; Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he painted using a technique that complemented his photography; he was a self-proclaimed Precisionist, a term that emphasized the linear precision he employed in his depictions; as in his photographic works, his subjects were generally material things such as machinery and structures; he was hired by the Ford Motor Co. to photograph and make paintings of their factories; he died in Dobbs Ferry, New York)