Still Life with Apples and a Green Glass, 1925
Watercolor over pencil on paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Charles Demuth
(American, 1883-1935)
Charles Demuth has been described by author Andrew Carnduff Ritchie as "Elegant, witty, frivolous, dandified, shy, kind, gentle, amusing..." Coming from rather wealthy circumstances and suffering a delicate health and lameness, Charles Demuth grew up with an interest in art, completing studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1910 and also studying at several art academys in Paris.
Demuth experimented with influences of the day including cubist and expressionism. His most memorable style is at once intimate and calculating with subtle shadings of color and form as in the watercolor Flowers, Cyclamen 1920.
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His calculated use of structured washes with controlled bleeds and blotting intensify the color depth and texture as he masterfully conserves the white of the paper. Other phases of his work reflect influences of his contemporaries, Charles Sheeler, Reginald Marsh, Cezanne, and John Marin.
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