Classic Photographs

Charles Sheeler

The Buggy, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (Christmas Greetings)

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October 5, 03:26 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Charles Sheeler

1883 - 1965

The Buggy, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (Christmas Greetings)

toned gelatin silver print, mounted to hand-ruled card, caption and date in letterpress on the mount, framed, 1917, printed in 1928

image: 3 ½ by 4 ¾ in. (8.9 by 12.1 cm.)

card: 8 by 6 ½ in. (20.3 by 16.5 cm.)

frame: 20 ¾ by 17 in. (52.7 by 43.2 cm.)

The photographer to his friend Earl Horter, American painter and Cubist art collector

Private collection

Swann Galleries, 25 February 2020, Sale 2531, Lot 40

Charles W. Millard, III, 'Charles Sheeler, American Photographer,' Contemporary Photographer, 1968, vol. 6, no. 1, unpaginated

This photograph was the basis of Sheeler's 1932 charcoal drawing, Interior, Bucks County Barn, which is in the collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (33.78).