Artist: Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)
Nationality: American
Movement: Precisionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After visiting Europe several times during the early 20th century, American painter and illustrator, Charles Demuth returned to the United States with a strong interest in avant-garde art. Beginning in 1916, his style reflected the influence of Cubism, as seen in his architectural paintings. He became a leading artist of the Precisionist movement and produced pieces that he called “portrait posters.” His famous painting I Saw the Figure Five in Gold is an example of one of these works and was created as a tribute to poet, William Carlos Williams. Due to illness in his early life, Demuth was incapacitated with diabetes for most of his final decade.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Charles Demuth, Apples and Carrots, 1926
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Charles Demuth, From the Garden of the Chateau, 1921 - 1925
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Charles Demuth - Men At A Bar 1912 watercolor and penci Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Boxer c. 1907 crayon, pen and ink, Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - From the Kitchen 1925 watercolor and graph The McNay Art Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Circus 1917 watercolor and penci Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Girl in Red 1912 watercolor on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Mt. Gilboa #5 c. 1912-1915 watercolor on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Narcissus 1917 watercolor and graph Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Demuth - Zinnias 1915 watercolor on paper Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Demuth - Bermuda Landscape 1917 watercolor and penci Hirshhorn Museum American
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Charles Demuth - Rooftops and Trees 1918 watercolor and graph Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Charles Demuth - . . .And the Home of the Brave 1931 Oil on composition b The Art Institute of Chicago American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935)Oil on cardboard; H. 35-1/2, W.
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Charles Demuth - Art Class Penn Academy 1906 watercolor and graph Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Demuth, American, 1883-1935 Eggplants and Pears 1925 Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on
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Charles Demuth, American, 1883-1935 Longhi on Broadway 1928 Oil on board 86.04 x 68.58 cm
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Charles Demuth - Man Standing On Dunes/ Verso: Landscape, Maine 1909-1910 oil on paperboard Hirshhorn Museum American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Americana, 1931 Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)Oil on canvas; H. 48, W. 36 in. (121.9 x
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Edouard Manet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, Full Face, from the book Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work) by Charles Asselineau (Paris: Lemerre, 1869), 1865
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Jacques Charles Bar, Charles Rollin, 18th - 19th century
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Philippe de Champaigne - Charles II 1653 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Richard Verbrick - Charles Cox 1835 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Pierre Charles Ingouf, Paul-Charles Lorry, 18th - 19th century
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Charles Hobson, Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
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John Smibert, American (born in Scotland), 1688-1751 Judge Charles Chambers 1743 Oil on canvas 121.6
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Charles Dana Gibson, London (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sons, 1897), 1897
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Charles Dana Gibson, Other People (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sonsä, 1911), 1911
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Charles Turner, Charles John, Crown Prince of Sweden, 18th - 19th century
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Pieter Cristoffel Wonder - Charles Thompson c. 1818 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Joseph Goodhue Chandler - Charles H. Sisson 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Robert Feke - Charles Apthorp 1748 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Etienne Carjat - Charles Baudelaire 1861 woodburytype National Gallery of Art French
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The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo, cassone panel, 1407? Master of Charles of
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Charles Hobson, Illustration for the third story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
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Charles Hobson, Illustration for the second story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
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Charles Hobson, Illustration for the first story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
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Charles Hobson, Illustration for the fifth story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ), Actualites: Entrvue de Charles-quint et de Francois 1er, au pre-catelan..., 19th century
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Charles Hobson, Frontispiece illustration in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Detroit Institute of Art: A Century of Collecting 1900-2000: Drawings from the DIA Collection
Artists from the past through the present are featured including Michelangelo, Cezanne, and Degas as well as Charles Demuth, Diego Rivera, and Ed Ruscha....
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: 4 x 4: Four Artists, Four Curators
Vernon Ah Kee. Gallery 1
Curator Michael Snelling No-nonsense confronting text pieces by Ah Kee talk of the experience of being Indigenous in Contemporary Australia.  Initially amusing but ultimately disturbing Ah Kee exposes ingrained ...
Tacoma Art Museum: A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918 – 1939
Paris was the world’s art center before World War II, attracting international artists who gleaned ideas and styles from the city’s heady scene. Key artists of many disciplines such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsk...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakekock, George Bellows, Patrick Henry Bruce, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe present the multiple voices of Am...
Memphis Brooks Museum: O' So Calla Lilly - The Brooks Presents Georgia O'Keeffe
The exhibition's eight paintings by O'Keeffe, five by Hartley, and one by Demuth acknowledge the importance of this subject to the Stieglitz circle of modernist artists. O'Keeffe became known as "The Lady of the Lily" in the 1920s because o...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Picturing the Banjo
"For more than two centuries, the banjo has played an integral role in American history and culture and has inspired an eclectic array of artists," said Sarah Cash, the Corcoran's Bechhoefer Curator of American Art. "A highlight of the Corcoran...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th-Century American Art
On the Edge of Your Seat examines the intersection of cultural forces that shaped American popular entertainment in the early years of the 20th century.  It analyzes how and why people attended vaudeville and early film in droves, contributing to ...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: First Retrospective in over 20 Years
Widely acknowledged as the greatest of the early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz that included Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, ...

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