1925.5.2: Fruit and Daisies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.5.2

People

Charles Demuth, American (Lancaster PA 1883 - 1935 Lancaster PA)

Title

Fruit and Daisies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1924-1925

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306223

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

30.4 × 45.9 cm (11 15/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
mat: 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24 in.)
frame: 49.8 × 64.9 × 1.7 cm (19 5/8 × 25 9/16 × 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English
• exhibition label: 1987-1988, backing board, paper: #DR 87.338.2 1987-88
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: #50.6

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Daniel Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.5.2

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1927), repr. in b/w p. 63
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1931), repr. in b/w p. 79
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 116
• Emily Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works" (Thesis, Ohio State University, 1959), Ohio State University, no. 463
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 58-59, 98, repr. as figs 5-6 on p. 59 [details], pl. 29 on p. 98
• Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 5-6, Page 59

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1931, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 06/30/1931 - 06/30/1931
• Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933
• Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
• Watercolors by Contemporary Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1935 - 06/25/1935
• American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
• American Painting from Inness until Today, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 06/22/1937 - 10/04/1937
• Exhibition of American Painting, Grace Horne Galleries, 12/08/1937 - 09/08/1938
• Unidentified Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1944, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 06/01/1944 - 06/28/1944
• Retrospective Exhibition of Charles Demuth, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/07/1950 - 06/11/1950
• Unidentified Exhibition, Thomas Crane Public Library, 1955, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, 08/15/1955 - 08/20/1955
• Americans of Our Times, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1956 - 09/12/1956
• Unidentified Exhibition, Wesleyan University, 1959, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 07/01/1959 - 08/31/1959
• Works of Charles Demuth, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 09/24/1966 - 11/06/1966
• The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 10/05/1971 - 11/07/1971; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, 11/22/1971 - 01/03/1972; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 01/19/1972 - 02/29/1972; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 03/19/1972 - 04/16/1972
• Charles Demuth, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/14/1987 - 01/17/1988; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/25/1988 - 04/24/1988; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 05/08/1988 - 07/10/1988
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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