Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-193).
Contents
Chimneys and towers : Charles Demuth's late paintings of Lancaster / Betsy Fahlman -- Across the final surface : observations on Charles Demuth's painting materials and working methods in his late industrial oil paintings / Claire Barry.
A collection of watercolors and drawings by Charles Demuth, American 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, watercolors & sculpture : property of various owners ... : exhibition ... : public auction ... October 28, 1976 ... [catalogue]
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Penn., Sept. 22-Dec. 7, 2007 and at The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Jan. 16-Mar. 14, 2008.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-411) and index.
Contents
Photographs and portraits of Demuth--Illustrations of works include:After Sir Christopher Wren--And the home of the brave--At the golden swan--Aucassin et Nicolette--Between four and five--Buildings, Lancaster--Calla lilies (Bert Savoy)--Chimney and water tower--The circus--Design for a Broadway poster--Distinguished air--Eggplant and green pepper--End of the parade, Coatesville, Pa.--The figure 5 in gold--Four male figures--From the garden of the Chateau--In the province--Longhi on Broadway--Love, love, love (homage to Gertrude Stein)--Machinery--My egypt--Poster portrait: dove--Poster portrait: Duncan--Poster portrait: Marin--Poster portrait: O'Keefe--Rue du SInge Que Peche--Sensations of Times Square--Study for poster portrait: Marsden Hartley--Tuberoses--Views of the city--
edited and with an introduction by Thomas E. Norton ; essays by Alvord L. Eiseman, Sherman E. Lee, and Gerald S. Lestz ; valedictory by Marsden Hartley.
"With assessments of his work by his contemporaries: A.E. Gallatin, Angela E. Hagen, Marsden Hartley, Helen Henderson, Henry McBride, Carl Van Vechten, Rita Wells, Willard Huntington Wright."
Includes index.
Summary
Charles Demuth is widely recognized as one of the most significant American modernists. His precisionist cityscapes, exquisite flowers, and free-wheeling watercolors of vaudeville performers, homosexual bathhouses, and cabaret scenes hand in many of the country's most prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Demuth's Lancaster, Pennsylvania, family residence, now home of the Demuth Foundation. At a time when many American artists remained tied to Europe, Demuth "Americanized" European modernism.This collection of155 of his letters offers valuable views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York, and Paris. Besides offering information on Demuth's own works, the letters also shed light on the output of his contemporaries, as well as references to their trips, liaisons, and idiosyncrasies. Demuth numbered among his correspondents some of the most famous artists and writers of his time, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, and William Carlos Willliams. In his travels in the United States and abroad, he encountered many other talented contemporaries: Peggy Bacon, Muriel Draper, Marcel Duchamp, the Stetthemer sisters, artists and writers, patrons, and gallery owners. Whether he is offering to pick up a copy of Joyce's Ulysses for Eugene O'Neill or trying to convince Georgia O'Keeffe to decorate his music room ("just allow that red and yellow 'canna' one to spread until it fills the room"), Demuth is always in the thick of art and literary life. Flamboyant in attire but discreet in his homosexuality, Demuth also reveals in his letters the life of a talented homosexual in the teens and twenties. With his best friends Robert Locher and Marsden Hartley, he circulated through the art colonies of Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and Paris, meeting everyone. The book also contains reprints of some short appraisals of Demuth and his work that were published during his lifetime, long out of print, including pieces by A. E. Gallatin, Angela E. Hagen, Marsden Hartley, Helen Henderson, Henry McBride, Carl Van Vechten, Rita Wells, and Willard Huntington Wright. [from the publisher]
