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Charles Sheeler

Yankee Clipper,

Description

Maker

  • Charles Sheeler

Title

Yankee Clipper

Medium

glaze, oil paint

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Oil on canvas

Techniques

  • Oil on canvas

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed and dated LR:Sheeler1939

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund and Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

41.006

About

Yankee Clipper

Selected Works

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

Signature: Signed and dated LR:Sheeler1939

Projects & Publications

Publications

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

Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol

April 23 - June 30, 1970

Painters of Precise Vision

February 3-28, 1954

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Yankee Clipper with the accession number of 41.006. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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