Modern
American Charles Sheeler was born in Philadelphia and
studied in the School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. Although he supported
himself at that time as an architectural photographer,
he dabbled in painting on weekends.
During the 1920s, Sheeler was associated with a group
of painters called the Precisionists, known for their
realistic style of painting. He focused strongly on industrial
subjects and was a distinguished photographer of machines.
He perfected a method of achieving a photographic quality
with paint. Even when he painted in an abstract style
he was still concerned with achieving absolute accuracy
and exactness in his art.
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