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Charles Demuth · 1921
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; bequeathed to Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, N.M., and New York, N.Y., 1935; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Showing the Later Tendencies in Art, Apr. 16–May 15, 1921, cat. 96.
- New York, Steinway Hall, 119 W. 57th St., Machine–Age Exposition, May 16–28, 1927, cat. 347.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, 291 and After, July 1–Nov. 1, 1944, cat. 287.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, cat. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and Collection, Feb. 2–29, 1948, no cat.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Charles Demuth, Mar. 7–June 11, 1950, cat. 112; Detroit Institute of Arts, Oct. 1–29, 1950, Coral Gables, FL, University of Miami, Nov. 20–Dec. 12, 1950, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Dec. 28, 1950–Jan. 18, 1951, Williamstown, MA, Williams College, Feb. 3–24, 1950, Newark, DE, University of Delaware, Mar. 10–31, 1951, Oberlin College, OH, Apr. 14–May 5, 1951, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, May 19–June 9, 1951 (New York only).
- Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living, Oct. 5–Nov. 14, 1971, cat. 80; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 22, 1971–Jan. 3, 1972, Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, Jan. 19–Feb. 29, 1972, Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar. 19–Apr. 16, 1972.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Modern: Charles Demuth of Lancaster, July 16–Sept. 11, 1983, cat. 20; Lancaster, PA, Heritage Center of Lancaster County, Oct. 1–Nov. 13, 1983; Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Nov. 23, 1983–Jan. 22, 1984.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth, Oct. 15, 1987–Jan. 17, 1988, cat. 70; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 25–Apr. 24, 1988, Columbus Museum of Art, OH, May 8–July 10, 1988; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 7–Oct. 2, 1988.
- Berlin, Martin–Gropius–Bau, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913–1993, May 8–July 25, 1993, cat. 44; London, Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, Sept. 16–Dec. 12, 1993.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Dada: 1915–1923, Nov. 20, 1996–Mar. 2, 1997.
- Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York (1905–1930), Oct. 18, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Feb. 10–May 17, 2005 (Paris only).
Literature
Published references
- S. Lane Faison, Jr., "Fact and Art in Charles Demuth," Magazine of Art, 43, no. 4 (April 1950): 128.
- Emily Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works" (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1959), vol. 2, 568–69, no. 400.
- Alvord L. Eiseman, "A Study of the Development of an Artist: Charles Demuth" (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1975), vol. 2, 357–58, ill. no. 213.
- Alvord L. Eiseman, Charles Demuth (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1982), 17, 21, 25.
- Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim, and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918–1941, exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1986), 234.
- Betsy Fahlman, "Charles Demuth's Paintings of Lancaster Architecture: New Discoveries and Observations," Arts Magazine 61, 7 (March 1987), 24, 28–29, fig. 21.
- Karen Lucic, Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine (London: Reaktion Books, 1991), 72, fig. 28.
- James M. Dennis, Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998), 208, 210 (ill.).
- Celeste Connor, Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924–1934 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 145–48, fig. 32.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), no. 33.
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 50.
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