Doylestown House—Stairs from Below

Charles Sheeler

1917 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

This photograph was made at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home that Sheeler shared with fellow painter and photographer Morton Schamberg. The spare geometry of the eighteenth-century Doylestown farmhouse proved an irresistible subject for an artist eager to explore with a camera the radical formal ideas that had impressed him in the paintings of Cézanne, Picasso, and Braque.

Artist

Charles Sheeler

Date

1917

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933