Charles Sheeler and film.

Charles Sheeler is recognized as a major American modernist painter and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century, yet what is seldom acknowledged is the impact of his early experiments in film on his work in both fields. Although it is well documented that Sheeler used his own photographs as the basis for many of his canvases and works on paper, it is less well known that his first direct appropriations, about 1920, were made from moving-picture film rather than still ...