Charles Sheeler
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Charles Sheeler was an American painter and photographer known for his pioneering role in Precisionism and his stark, modernist depictions of industrial architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Sheeler canonical | 3 |
| Charles Sheeler Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Charles Sheeler Context triple: [William Merritt Chase, notableStudent, Charles Sheeler]
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Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American social realist artist and photographer known for his politically engaged murals, paintings, and documentary photographs of working-class life during the Great Depression.
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Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.
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C.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery was a 20th-century American modern painter known for his simplified forms, bold color harmonies, and influential role bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
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D.
John Marin
John Marin was an influential American modernist painter and printmaker known for his dynamic watercolors of urban and coastal scenes.
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Victor Arnautoff
Victor Arnautoff was a Russian-American muralist and painter known for his prominent New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco and his politically charged, socially realist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Charles Sheeler Target entity description: Charles Sheeler was an American painter and photographer known for his pioneering role in Precisionism and his stark, modernist depictions of industrial architecture.
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A.
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American social realist artist and photographer known for his politically engaged murals, paintings, and documentary photographs of working-class life during the Great Depression.
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B.
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.
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C.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery was a 20th-century American modern painter known for his simplified forms, bold color harmonies, and influential role bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
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D.
John Marin
John Marin was an influential American modernist painter and printmaker known for his dynamic watercolors of urban and coastal scenes.
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E.
Victor Arnautoff
Victor Arnautoff was a Russian-American muralist and painter known for his prominent New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco and his politically charged, socially realist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Precisionist artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
geometric simplification
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stark realism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1883-07-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-05-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ⓘ |
| employer | Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheeler ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architectural photography
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industrial landscape art ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| fullName |
Charles Sheeler
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Charles Sheeler Jr.
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| genre |
architectural art
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industrial art ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
commercial photographer
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fine art painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| influenced |
Precisionism
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surface form:
American Precisionism
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| influencedBy |
Cubism
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photography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
American modernism
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Precisionism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
modernist depictions of industrial architecture
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pioneering role in Precisionism ⓘ |
| notableProject | photographic documentation of Ford River Rouge Plant ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Landscape
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Bucks County Barn ⓘ Church Street El ⓘ Classic Landscape ⓘ Highland Park Ford Plant ⓘ
surface form:
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, Ford Plant
Ford River Rouge Complex ⓘ
surface form:
River Rouge Plant
Skyscrapers ⓘ Upper Deck ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Dobbs Ferry, New York
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surface form:
Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City, New York, United States of America
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Referenced by (4)
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