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Sheeler

[ shee-ler ]

noun

  1. Charles, 1883–1965, U.S. painter and photographer.


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The Bee’s Andrew Sheeler contributed to this story.

A painting by Charles Sheeler and a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White are juxtaposed with a glass case full of car parts, a gleaming horn, a hubcap glistening like a freshly polished silver salver, a headlight taking on talismanic power.

Sheeler’s 1930 “American Landscape” shows a precise and uncluttered world, a newly minted factory with no trash or industrial detritus, dominated by a smokestack not belching pollution, but gently puffing a little white vapor, like a Hollywood starlet blowing out a stream of fine cigarette smoke.

When Jim Sheeler started writing obituaries in 1996, the job was considered among the worst in journalism, a Siberia for wayward reporters.

Mr. Sheeler, who died Sept. 17 at age 53, went on to spend a year shadowing Marine Maj.

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