Modernist painter and lithographer, photographer, and designer. Only child of Charles Rettew and Mary Cunningham Sheeler. Attended the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) (1900-03) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1903-06), both in Philadelphia. In 1920, he collaborated with photographer Paul Strand on the short film Manhatta. Condé Nast Staff Photographer (1926-29). Norman Wait Harris Prize, 1945.
He married Katharine Shaffer in 1921; in 1933 she died of cancer.
He married Musya Metas Sokolova in 1939.
Modernist painter and lithographer, photographer, and designer. Only child of Charles Rettew and Mary Cunningham Sheeler. Attended the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) (1900-03) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1903-06), both in Philadelphia. In 1920, he collaborated with photographer Paul Strand on the short film Manhatta. Condé Nast Staff Photographer (1926-29). Norman Wait Harris Prize, 1945.
He married Katharine Shaffer in 1921; in 1933 she died of cancer.
He married Musya Metas Sokolova in 1939.
Family Members
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Charles Rettew Sheeler
1859–1938
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Mary A. Cunningham Sheeler
1861–1922
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Katharine Shaffer Sheeler
1884–1933 (m. 1921)
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Musya Metas Sokolova Sheeler
1908–1981 (m. 1939)
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