Charles Sheeler

Charles Sheeler was an American painter and commercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism. Sheeler is often credited with coining the term precisionism, a uniquely American art movement that focused on industrialization and modernization, especially of the American landscape. Inspired by early twentieth-century architecture and machinery, precisionist artworks are characterized by their sharply defined, geometric forms.

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