1925.5.3: Fruit and Sunflowers

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.5.3

People

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

Title

Fruit and Sunflowers

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1924-1925

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306224

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

45.7 × 29.7 cm (18 × 11 11/16 in.)
mat: 64.8 × 46.7 cm (25 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
frame: 66.7 × 48.6 × 1.4 cm (26 1/4 × 19 1/8 × 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: lower edge: [WHAT]MAN 1921 ENGLAND

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.5.3

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Emily Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works" (Thesis, Ohio State University, 1959), Ohio State University, no. 464
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 136, ill.
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 10, 18, 45, 61, 69, 95, cat. 16, pl. 3
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, fig. 25, reproduced in color p. 124
• Christopher Finch, American Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1986), p. 204, reproduced in color fig. 247
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 261, cat. 305, ill.
• Christopher Finch, Twentieth-Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1988), p. 206, plate 247
• [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1994 - 1995)., preface (unpaginated); repr. in color on cover
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 92
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 30 on p. 99

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
• Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
• Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934
• Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935
• Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935
• Unidentified Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Association, 1935, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 12/08/1935 - 12/31/1935
• American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
• Exhibition of Paintings by Distinguished Contemporary American Artists, E. T. Slattery Co., Boston, 03/04/1937 - 03/27/1937
• Unidentified Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1938, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/29/1937 - 01/21/1938
• Demuth Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 04/18/1939 - 09/30/1939
• Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/24/1946 - 05/08/1946; Pan-American Union, Washington, 05/17/1946 - 08/01/1946; [Unknown venue, Buenos Aires], Buenos Aires, 08/23/1946 - 09/13/1946; [Unknown venue, Rio de Janeiro], Rio de Janeiro, 10/01/1946 - 10/31/1946; [Unknown venue, Sao Paolo], Sao Paolo, 11/01/1946 - 11/30/1946; [Unknown venue, Montevideo], Montevideo, 01/01/1947 - 02/28/1947; [Unknown venue, Bogota], Bogota, 03/01/1947 - 03/31/1947; [Unknown venue, Lima], Lima, 04/01/1947 - 04/30/1947; [Unknown venue, Santiago], 05/01/1947 - 05/30/1947
• Exhibit of American Watercolors, Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 07/23/1949 - 01/30/1950
• Retrospective Exhibition of Charles Demuth, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/07/1950 - 06/11/1950
• Charles Demuth, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10/01/1950 - 10/29/1950; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 11/20/1950 - 12/12/1950; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 12/28/1950 - 01/18/1951; Williams College Museum of Art, 02/03/1951 - 02/24/1951; University of Delaware, Newark, 03/10/1951 - 03/31/1951; Oberlin College, Oberlin, 04/14/1951 - 05/05/1951
• Young America: Artists Under Forty, Brandeis University, Waltham, 06/06/1954 - 06/20/1954
• Unidentified Exhibition, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 1958, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 06/15/1958 - 09/15/1958
• Flower and Garden, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 10/16/1962 - 11/25/1962
• Works of Charles Demuth, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 09/24/1966 - 11/06/1966
• Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 05/16/1974 - 07/15/1974
• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
• 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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