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Charles Demuth
Roses
1926

About the Item

Charles Demuth (1883-1935) Roses, 1926 Watercolor and pencil on paper, 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches Framed dimensions: 20 3/4 x 27 inches Signed and dated center left: C. Demuth 1926 Provenance: C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York; George Dyer, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1934; private collection, by descent; [ Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 1988, lot 240, illustrated]; A. Alfred Taubman, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (acquired at the above sale) Exhibited: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Demuth Memorial Exhibition, December 1937-January 1938, no. 121 (as Roses and Daisies). Literature: Richard C. Weyand scrapbooks, no. W432; Emily Edna Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, vol. II, 608, no. 495. Born into a well-to-do family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Charles Demuth displayed precocious artistic talent at an early age. He studied at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1903 to 1905, and with Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1905 to 1910. Demuth’s early work contains elements of the Ashcan style then being practiced by the previous generation of Anshutz students, such as Robert Henri and John Sloan, as well as elements of the fin-du-siècle Aestheticism of the English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley. Demuth visited Paris from 1907 to 1908 and again from 1912 to 1914, when he met his mentor Marsden Hartley and frequented the salon of Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1914 he moved to New York, where he became part of a circle of avant-garde artists and writers, including Marcel Duchamp and Eugene O’Neill. Beginning around 1917, Demuth pioneered the Precisionist style, under the influence of Cubism. He supplemented his focus on industrial architecture during the 1920s with watercolors of fruit, vegetables, and flowers, subjects that allowed him to indulge his delight in organic forms. Demuth exhibited primarily at George Daniel Gallery, New York, as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Society of Independent Artists, Salons of America, and the 291 gallery. His work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Creator:
Charles Demuth (1883-1935, American)
Creation Year:
1926
Dimensions:
Height: 11.88 in (30.18 cm)Width: 17.88 in (45.42 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor,Pencil
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1920-1929
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bedford, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: GC-34411stDibs: LU53933854261