Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
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content: Charles Sheeler papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1-2; 0.4 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa, 1930s-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sheechar, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Items are arranged by date.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Writings date from circa 1930s-1965 and include Sheeler's journal dated from circa 1950s-1963. The journal includes poems, writings, transcribed correspondence, transcribed articles (which were later published), and a paper delivered at a symposium on photography held at the Museum of Modern Art in October 1950. Two notebooks dating from about the same time includes miscellaneous notes and writings, adresses, and recipes. Additional writings by Sheeler include an article that he wrote for Arts Magazine, writings on artists, and a manuscript version of his autobiography, along with notes and drafts. The autobiography manuscript was commissioned by publisher Harcourt Brace in 1937, in which Sheeler outlines his career from his time at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia though the mid 1930s. The manuscript was not published, but was used as the basis for Constance Rourke's biography Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition published by Harcourt the following year.

The series also includes a short story by Musya Sheeler, and a short story illustrated with photographs of the Sheelers' by friend Dorothy Eidlitz.