Search | Sitemap | My Museum | Font Size
Return to Previous Page


  Zoom

Modern and Contemporary Art

Painting VIII (Mechanical Abstraction)

1916

Morton Livingston Schamberg, American, 1881 - 1918

Oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (76.5 x 51.4 cm)

* Gallery 168, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor (Kaiserman Gallery)

1950-134-181

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Gallery Label

This painting is one of a series of nine images of individual machines that Schamberg made in Philadelphia in 1916. The model for this work was an automated wire stitcher, a machine used in the printing industry for binding books. Schamberg found his sources for such images in illustrated trade catalogues. The elegant austerity of the composition highlights the formal beauty of machinery and foreshadows the Precisionist aesthetic developed by Schamberg’s lifelong friend Charles Sheeler.

Social Tags [?]

There are currently no user tags associated with this object.

[Add Your Own Tags]

Additional information:
  • Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture


* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.

Return to Previous Page