SHEELER is one of the most accomplished painters the U.S. has ever known, though his machine-smooth, machine-cold pictures are not the sort to move many people. A reticent, wry, steel-grey and bespectacled craftsman of 71, Sheeler waited long and patiently for the recognition he has today. Last fall Frederick Wight, director of U.C.L.A.'s Art Galleries, organized a retrospective exhibition of Sheeler's art; this week the show was in its fifth week at the De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, and during 1955 it will be seen at San Diego, Fort Worth, Philadelphia and Utica, N.Y.
Sheeler's abstract yet convincing Family Group...
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