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Charles Sheeler, American; Doylestown House, Open Window, 1916-17; gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Lane Collection.

From 1910 to 1926, Sheeler rented a small, eighteenth-century fieldstone house in Doylestown, Pennsylvania as a weekend retreat. Sheeler found inspiration for his work in its unadorned interior with its whitewashed walls and sparse architectural details. The series became his first serious body of artistic photographs.