Yachts
Charles Sheeler
1924
Medium
lithograph in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 20 × 24.77 cm (7 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.77 × 33.02 cm (9 3/4 × 13 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George Biddle)
Accession Number
2015.19.2536
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...