Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition

Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition by Karen Lucic. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780295976433.

Charles Sheeler in Doylestown investigates one artists lifelong engagement with the rich, distinctive traditions of rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It charts Sheelers discovery of the regions architecture and artifacts beginning about 1910, when he and fellow artist Morton Livingston Schamberg rented an 18th-century farmhouse in Doylestown. It assesses the impact this seminal event had on Sheelers early career, and how his cyclical return to Bucks County themes in later life reveals poignant attachments and emotional depths not usually ascribed to this 20th-century painter and photographer -- known primarily as an iconographer of the machine.