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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.5.1
People
Charles Demuth, American (Lancaster PA 1883 - 1935 Lancaster PA)
Title
Lily
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1923
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306253

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 45.9 x 30.1 cm (18 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Graphite, l.l.: C Demuth / 1923
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, handwritten: cat. #83
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, typed: Demuth / Obj. 93 / Box 42
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, stamped and typed
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and typed: Catalogue no. DR.87.337.1
  • watermark: partial watermark: [WHAT]MAN 1921

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, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.5.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emily Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works" (Thesis, Ohio State University, 1959), Ohio State University, no. 468
  • 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. 135, ill.
  • Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), ill. p. 165

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935
  • American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
  • Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939
  • Americans of Our Times, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1956 - 09/12/1956
  • 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
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1975, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 04/01/1975 - 08/31/1975
  • 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 Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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