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In 1998, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for producing There's Something About Mary. [2] Wessler's other producing credits include It's Pat, Bushwhacked, Me, Myself & Irene, Shallow Hal and Stuck on You and The Heartbreak Kid (2007). His 2010s films included Hall Pass, The Three Stooges ...
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Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. He found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908. Most of his education was i...
In 1920, Sheeler invited photographer Paul Strand to collaborate on a "portrait" of Manhattan in film. The resulting 35mm nine-minute series of vignettes, called Manhatta after Walt Whitman's poem, Mannahatta, was the first avant-garde film created in America.
His work is featured at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan. He was hired by the Ford Motor Company to photograph and make paintings of their factories.[when?][citation needed]
Films created by Charles Sheeler
1. 1921 Manhatta (with Paul Strand)]
Photographic works
1. 1917 Doylestown House: Stairs from Below(Metropolitan Museum of Art) 2. 1927 Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company(Metropolitan Museum of Art) 3. 1928 Images from Vogue and Vanity Fair
Early works
1. Church Street El (1920) –The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 2. Still Life (1925) –M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco 3. Lady of the Sixties (1925) –Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 4. Upper Deck (1928–1929) –Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA 5. American Landscape (1930) –Museum of Modern Art, New York City 6. Americana (1931) –Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 7. Classic Landscape (1931) –Barney A. Ebsworth collection 8. View of New York (1931) –Boston Museum of Fi...
Power series
In 1940, Fortune Magazine published a series of six paintings commissioned of Sheeler. To prepare for the series, Sheeler spent a year traveling and taking photographs. Fortune editors aimed to “reflect life through forms … [that] trace the firm pattern of the human mind,” and Sheeler chose six subjects to fulfill this theme: a water wheel (Primitive Power), a steam turbine (Steam Turbine), the railroad (Rolling Power), a hydroelectric turbine (Suspended Power), an airplane (Yankee Clipper) a...
Later works
1. Interior (1940) –National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 2. Fugue (1940) –Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 3. Bucks County Barn (1940) –Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago 4. The Artist Looks at Nature (1943) –Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 5. Water (1945) –Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 6. Incantation (1946) –Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn 7. Amoskeag Canal (1948) –Currier Museum of Art, Manchester 8. Windows (1952) –Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City 9. Conversation...
"Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs" – Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 4 – November 1, 1939."Paintings by Charles Sheeler" – Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, November 2 – December 2, 1944."Charles Sheeler: A Retrospective Exhibition" – Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, October 11 – November 7, 1954. Toured November 18 – June 15, 1955 at the M. H. de Young Memor..."Charles Sheeler Retrospective Exhibition" – Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 17 – December 31, 1961.Paintings
1. Dahlias and asters, 1912 2. Chrysanthemums, 1912 3. 1913 4. Lhasa,1916 5. Barn, 1917. Conté crayon on paper 6. Skyscrapers, 1922 7. Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting, 1922 8. Gladioli in White Pitcher, 1926
Photographs
1. Side of White Barn, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1915 2. Bucks County Barn, 1914-1917 3. Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Freytag-Lohringhoven, 1922 4. Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927 5. Bleeder Stacks, Ford Plant, Detroit, 1927 6. Ford Plant, River Rouge, Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher, 1927
^ "Power: A portfolio by Charles Sheeler", Fortunemagazine (December 1940) Time Inc., Volume XXII, Number 6
Brock, Charles (2006), Charles Sheeler: Across Media, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, in association with University of California Press, Berkeley, ISBN 978-0-520-24872-4.Friedman, Martin (1975), Charles Sheeler, New York: Watson/Guptill Publications.Harnsberger, R. Scott (1992), Ten Precisionist Artists: Annotated Bibliographies, Westport: Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-27664-4.Lucic, Karen (1991), Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-11111-0.- July 16, 1883, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- May 7, 1965 (aged 81), Dobbs Ferry, New York, US
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Feb 25, 2019 · Jack Shepherd. Monday 25 February 2019 05:33 GMT. Comments. Oscars 2019: Green Book wins best picture. Green Book has won the Oscar for best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, with producer...
Charles B. Wessler is known as an Producer, Actor, and Executive Producer. Some of his work includes Green Book, Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, Me, Myself & Irene, Dumb and Dumber To, Shallow Hal, Movie 43, and Hall Pass.
