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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.10
People
Charles Demuth, American (Lancaster PA 1883 - 1935 Lancaster PA)
Title
In Vaudeville
Other Titles
Alternate Title: In the Gymnasium
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1916
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308182

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on thin off-white wove paper
Dimensions
27.7 x 21.4 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower left: C. Demuth
  • inscription: removed from old mat, now in curatorial file, black ink: In Vaudeville
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 125.40

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Downtown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1937, gift; to Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr., gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr.
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.10
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. 175
  • Joseph J. Rishel and Katherine Sachs, Cézanne and Beyond, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2009), p. 290, fig. 10.11
  • 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. 24 on p. 93

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Wellesley College Museum of Art, 1949, Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 02/25/1949 - 09/29/1949
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 1958, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 06/15/1958 - 09/15/1958
  • Works of Charles Demuth, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 09/24/1966 - 11/06/1966
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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