Monday Morning Museum: Precisionism

Precisionism – America from the 1920s to the 1930s

Precisionism was the first indigenous modern-art movement in the United States and an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism. The Precisionist style, which first emerged after World War I and was at the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called "Cubist-Realism." – Wkipedia.org

In addition to Preston Dickinson (see art example below), other Precisionist are Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler.

Still Life With Vase of Chinese Lanterns, by Preston Dickinson (1891-1930

Last Monday’s Art – Post-Impressionism
Next Monday’s Art – The Pre-Raphaelites

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Monday Morning Museum: Charles Rettew Sheeler, Jr.

Charles Rettew Sheeler, Jr. – Monday 16 July 1883 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Friday 7 May 1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York

American Precisionist Painter and Photographer


I chose to feature this Sheeler work – Winter Window, 1941 – simply because I like the uncomplicated and uncluttered image with its straight lines and single object delineations of the foreground and middle ground. However, I do think that the top 25% of the painting does not add anything to the image and perhaps detracts from it.



Last Monday’s Artist - Édouard Manet
Next Monday’s Artist - Berthe Morisot

Images:
Left: View of New York, 1931 from the website cgfa.acropolisinc.com
Center: Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Windows, 1952 from the website pintura.aut.org
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