Charles Demuth 1883-1935

Charles Demuth
1883-1935
Flowers

signed C. Demuth, l.l.

watercolor and pencil on paper

measurements
8 1/2 by 11 in.

alternate measurements
(21.6 by 27.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1915-16.

PROVENANCE

Daniel Gallery, New York
New Gallery (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 12, 1953, lot 6)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above, 1954

EXHIBITED

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth of Lancaster, September-November 1966, no. 146
Dallas, Texas, The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The M.P. Potamkin Collection, January-March 1970, no. 15
Santa Barbara, California, The Art Galleries, University of Southern California; Berkeley, California, University Art Museum, University of California; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Utica, New York, Munson-William-Proctor Institute, Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living, October 1971-April 1972, no. 12, illustrated in color p. 29
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Musuem, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary (From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin), November 1972-January 1973, no. 39, p. 51
New York, Washburn Gallery, Charles Demuth, The Early Years: Works from 1909-1917, February-March 1975
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, June-October 1989, p. 9

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Alvord L. Eiseman, A Study of the Development of an Artist: Charles Demuth, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1976, p. 242, illustrated no. 135