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Doylestown House - the Stove, Pennsylvania
Creator
Charles SheelerAmerican Photographer · 1883–1965
All works by this person →> My interest in photography, paralleling that in painting, has been based on admiration for its possibility of accounting for the visual world with an exactitude not equaled by any other medium. The difference in the manner of arrival at their destination--the painting being the result of a composite image and the photograph being the result of a single image--prevents these media from being comp
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- 1917
- Medium
- Toned gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The wood-burning stove in the center of the image casts its warmth and light into the space of the room and illuminates the scene. The stove is thereby rendered as a silhouette, its pipe a black vertical line rising out of the picture frame. Rather than use the stove as intended, Charles Sheeler placed electric bulbs in the stove's belly to simulate the light from a fire. He created a dramatic contrast of lights and darks, of shadows and highlights that turn the empty room into a graphic composition.
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