Charles Demuth (1883-1935)

Landscape No. 4

Details

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Demuth, Charles
Landscape No. 4
oil on board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.2 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Augusta W. Demuth, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, mother of the artist.
Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943.
Richard W.C. Weyand, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1956.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris B. Steinberg, New York.
Private collection, Memphis, Tennessee.

Literature

E. Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology, and His Works, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, Vol. 2, no. 41, p. 428

Lot Essay

In the summer of 1914, Charles Demuth visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he completed a series of watercolors and oils of the dunes and bays of the then small fishing village off the tip of Cape Cod. "Demuth extended the vibrant color spectrum he had tentatively introduced in his Etretat landscapes and replaced his staccato syncopations with slow undulating rhythms. The results, commended by critics, irrevocably established Demuth as a modernist." (Barbara Haskell, Charles Demuth, New York, 1987, p.50)

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