Manchester Valley
1914 · Oil with sand on canvas
45 1/2 x 60 5/8" (115.4 x 153.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Joseph Pickett
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Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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Designed for Children
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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Joseph Pickett was an American painter of landscapes and architectural scenes rendered with meticulous observation and precise linear perspective. Active in late 19th and early 20th century Pennsylvania, his work documented industrial and rural terrain with a clarity and structural rigor that anticipated modernist interests in geometric form. His detailed compositions combined documentary specificity with a formal rigor unusual for landscape painting of his era.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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