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Charles Sheeler

Yankee Clipper, 1939

Description

Maker

  • Charles Sheeler, 1883-1965, American

Title

Yankee Clipper

Year

1939

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • glaze,
  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated LR:Sheeler1939

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund and Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

41.006

Projects & Publications

Publications

William Steiger

Transport

Elsie Driggs

The Quick and the Classical

Selected Works

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modernism in the Americas

June 20 - August 31, 2003

The Far Traveler

June 29 - September 3, 2000

From the Reserve IV

July 22 - October 2, 1994

American Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection

June 26, 1987 - January 3, 1988

Masterpieces from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

July 18 - September 14, 1979

Painters of Precise Vision

February 3-28, 1954

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