Word: sheeler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clamor of a red New York City fire truck with the numeral 5 on it. But while it has become one of the icons of American modernism, its author has remained a little elusive beside the heavier reputations of his contemporaries: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler. What Demuth needed was a retrospective to put him in ! focus, and now, in the capable hands of the art historian Barbara Haskell -- who has also done excellent shows of Dove and Hartley -- he has one, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City...
...almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity formed by "God the Machine, Materialistic Empiricism the Son, and Science the Holy Ghost." Its factories, thought Strand's colleague Charles Sheeler, "are our substitutes for religious expression...