Delmonico Building
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), Delmonico Building, lithograph, 1926, edition of 50, signed and titled in pencil. Reference: Gordon 4.
Image Size 9.75 x 6.75 (248 x 171 mm), sheet Size 15.125 x 11.5 (384 x 292 mm)
A fine, clean impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (2 to 3 3/8 inches). A small loss (1/4 inch) in the top right sheet corner, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition.
Exhibited widely, including: Icons of Industrial Expansion: American Precisionist Prints, 1925-1941, Baruch College,1999. The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, The British Museum, 2008. Reproduced in numerous volumes including : A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980, James Watrous, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984; The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Sheeler’s Delmonico Building is of course one of the great examples of American Precisionist printmaking.