Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Structural Form

March 18 - July 9, 2017 - This exhibition incorporates more than 60 photographs from the archives of Condé Nast, as well additional photographs, paintings, and costumes on loan from leading museum collections. Vignettes of costume, photographs, and paintings will enable visitors to fully explore how the dramatic viewpoints, rhythmic patterning, and abstract compositions seen in his photographs and paintings from the late 1920s and 1930s were influenced by his work at Condé Nast. In the 1920s, fashion became streamlined into simplified shapes and columns, in much the same way as architectural design became streamlined into sleek skyscrapers, or painting was simplified into the faceted form and line of Cubism. All of this filtered into Sheeler’s artistic consciousness, particularly as he was photographing models in new dress styles.