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Charles Demuth Notecard Folio
Product Description
American watercolorist Charles Demuth (1883–1935) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to well-off parents who supported his interest in art. As a young man Demuth studied under William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and made three separate trips to Paris, each time successfully insinuating himself into the heart of the avant-garde art scene. Through a meeting in Paris with fellow American artist Marsden Hartley, Demuth was brought into the circle of photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, whose New York gallery, 291, was at the forefront of American modernism. By 1917, Demuth had joined the group of modernists exhibited at 291—a who's-who of artists that at one time or another included John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Arshile Gorky, and Max Weber, among others. One thing these major artists had in common was a reverence for French postimpressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), whose radical representations of form and space created the bridge leading from impressionism to cubism and abstract expressionism.
Frail his entire life, Demuth died from complications of diabetes at the age of fifty-one. Yet during his life he produced more than one thousand works of art, most of them made while living in the Demuth family home in Lancaster. Late in his life, he turned to painting with oils and became a major artist in the precisionism movement—an American offshoot of cubism that owed a great deal to the principles first expressed by Cézanne.
The exhibition "Cézanne and American Modernism" includes paintings, works on paper, photographs, books, portfolios, and exhibition catalogues illustrating the responses by American artists to the themes, process, and style of Paul Cézanne. The two Demuth watercolors reproduced for this folio of notecards are featured in the exhibition.
Contains five each of the following two notecards: Housetops, 1918, from the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, and Red Chimneys, 1918, from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
Frail his entire life, Demuth died from complications of diabetes at the age of fifty-one. Yet during his life he produced more than one thousand works of art, most of them made while living in the Demuth family home in Lancaster. Late in his life, he turned to painting with oils and became a major artist in the precisionism movement—an American offshoot of cubism that owed a great deal to the principles first expressed by Cézanne.
The exhibition "Cézanne and American Modernism" includes paintings, works on paper, photographs, books, portfolios, and exhibition catalogues illustrating the responses by American artists to the themes, process, and style of Paul Cézanne. The two Demuth watercolors reproduced for this folio of notecards are featured in the exhibition.
Contains five each of the following two notecards: Housetops, 1918, from the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, and Red Chimneys, 1918, from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
