Counterpoint
1949
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View on museum website →Medium
conté crayon over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 71.2 cm (20 x 28 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel J. Terra, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.47.1
About the Artist
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), born Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, began his artistic training at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, where he studied industrial drawing and applied arts. He continued at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1903 to 1906, studying under the Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. Trips to Europ...