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Trees, No. 2,
1916
Charles Henry Demuth, American, 1883–1935
x1943-9
Trees, No. 2 belongs to a series of prismatic watercolors painted by Demuth during the summer and fall of 1916 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he worked alongside painter and writer Marsden Hartley. Demuth was influenced by the work of French Post-Impressionist painters like Paul Cézanne. In his abstracted landscape, Demuth evokes the experience of sunlight and atmosphere through the interplay of tree branches with the planes of color that cover the surface of the paper. These formal elements replace the depiction of a sweeping scenic vista common to academic landscape painting.
Information
Title
Trees, No. 2
Dates
1916
Maker
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
21.2 x 27.6 cm (8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1943-9
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower left: C. Demuth -1916- [19 is underlined]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Inherited from the artist by Robert E. Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Frank Jewett Mather Jr.;
See dealer file for 1940.;
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
- Diana Tuite, Methods for modernism: American art, 1876-1925, (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2010).
