The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 9, 2024

Bucks County Barn

Bucks County Barn

1915
(American, 1883–1965)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 23.7 x 18.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1984.62
Location: not on view

Description

Better known for his paintings in the American Precionist style, Charles Sheeler was a pioneering and influential photographer. Mainly self-taught, from 1912 until 1945 he occasionally used commercial photography as a means of support. Bucks County Barn, an early, important work representative of Sheeler's photographic style, features a geometric composition tending toward abstraction, sharp focus, and subtle tonal range. Taken at a time when creative photography was still dominated by the blurred, atmospheric style of pictorialism, the picture contains many of the formal elements that would later characterize contemporary photography.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 318
  • Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, (April 6-June 22, 1997); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, (August 23-November 2, 1997); Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, (December 19, 1997-March 1, 1998): "Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition," catalogue by Karen Lucic, repr. p. 74.
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).
    CMA, January 24 - April 9, 1989: "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art."
    Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
    CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: "Year in Review 1984," CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 202, no. 69, repr. p. 194.
  • {{cite web|title=Bucks County Barn|url=false|author=Charles Sheeler|year=1915|access-date=09 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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