Landscape, 1927

  • Charles Sheeler, American, 1883-1965

Watercolor, black crayon and pencil on off-white wove paper, mounted to paperboard

  • Sheet: 4 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (12.4 × 20.6 cm) Mount: 7 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (18.4 × 26.7 cm)

Bequest of Esther B. Cutler in memory of Robert H. Tannahill

F1987.55

Signed, in pencil, lower left: Sheeler.

Marks, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper riht: #53 GBB. Stamped, in black ink, mount, verso, upper right, MAY 17 1932. Marks, in black ink, on frame backing, upper left, KOZAL FRAME. Sticker, frame backing, upper center, letterpress: Museum of Modern Art | LOAN; typed: 39.593 | Tannahill. Sticker, frame, backing, lower left, letterpress: THE | DOWNTOWN GALLERY | 113 W. 13th St. New York, N.Y.

Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper left: Landscape | Charles Sheeler Inscribed, in black ink, on frame backing, upper left: To Mr. Robert Tannahill | with apperciation from | Charles Sheeler. | January 18 - 1935.

the artist, Charles Sheeler

1935, gift to Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

Esther B. Cutler

1987-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1939, p. 50, cat. no. 75.

Charles Sheeler, Landscape, 1927, watercolor, black crayon and pencil on off-white wove paper, mounted to paperboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Esther B. Cutler in memory of Robert H. Tannahill, F1987.55.