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Bucks County Barn

1915
(American, 1883–1965)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 23.7 x 18.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1984.62
Location: not on view
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Better known for his paintings in the American Precionist style, Charles Sheeler was a pioneering and influential photographer. Mainly self-taught, from 1912 until 1945 he occasionally used commercial photography as a means of support. Bucks County Barn, an early, important work representative of Sheeler's photographic style, features a geometric composition tending toward abstraction, sharp focus, and subtle tonal range. Taken at a time when creative photography was still dominated by the blurred, atmospheric style of pictorialism, the picture contains many of the formal elements that would later characterize contemporary photography.
Bucks County Barn

Bucks County Barn

1915

Charles Sheeler

(American, 1883–1965)
America, 20th century

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