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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
Lot 88

Charles Sheeler
(1883-1965)
Barn Decorations (Hex Signs) 6 1/2 x 9 1/2in, image; 11 1/8 x 14 1/8in, plexi

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

US$60,000 - US$80,000

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Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)

Barn Decorations (Hex Signs)
tempera on plexiglass
6 1/2 x 9 1/2in, image; 11 1/8 x 14 1/8in, plexi
Painted in 1959.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1959.
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York.
Drs. Macia and Meyer Friedman, acquired from the above, 1978.
Estate of the above.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 28, 2001, lot 142.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.

Exhibited
New York, The Downtown Gallery, n.d.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, American Art... 20th Century: Image to Abstraction, 1967, n.p. (as Barn Decorations).
New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, n.d.
New York, Babcock Galleries, Davis, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Sheeler, May 1-July 11, 2007, no. 10.
New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modernist Masters, October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 28.

Literature
L.N. Dochterman, The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler, Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1963, pp. 551, 554.
M. Friedman, B Hayes, and C. Millard, Charles Sheeler, Washington, D.C., 1968, p. 31, illustrated (as Hex Signs).
M. Friedman, Charles Sheeler, New York, 1975, p. 188, illustrated (as Hex Signs).
C. Troyen and E.E. Hirshler, Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987, p. 214.
J. Goodrich, "Looking Back on an American Revolution," The New York Sun, vol. 123, no. 33, May 31, 2007, p. 22, front page illustration.

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