Gift of the artist to The Museum of Modern Art, 1946 Sotheby's, New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 23 October 2002, lot 151
Exhibited
Precisionism in America, 1915-1941, Montclair Art Museum, November 1994 - January 1995, and traveling to three other venues
Literature
Abrams, Precisionism in America, 1915-1941, p. 68, pl. 26 (this print)
Catalogue Essay
In 1944 Sheeler was commissioned by Fortune magazine to create a group of still life photographs, each pertaining to nineteenth-century American cultural figures. This photograph is from that series.