Charles Sheeler

Architectural Cadences
1954

A cubist painting depicting an industrial landscape with abstracted buildings in muted colors, featuring geometric shapes and forms that represent structures, with a backdrop of stylized clouds in the sky.

A cubist painting depicting an industrial landscape with abstracted buildings in muted colors, featuring geometric shapes and forms that represent structures, with a backdrop of stylized clouds in the sky.

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Date
1954

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 25 × 34 7/8in. (63.5 × 88.6 cm)

Accession number
54.35

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1584

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection

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