Beautiful Charles Henry Demuth watercolor, 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Still life, the mat has some visible humidity marks, but it does not affect the art, there are some oxidation signs due to years created. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1883 - 1935. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Demuth family name can be traced back to the 1700s. Charles Demuth was born in the town in 1883, and the site, depicted in many of his most important works, proved significant to the artist's work for the remainder of his career.Demuth exhibited an early interest in and aptitude for drawing and painting. He followed a traditional course of artistic training, studying at various artistic institutes at home and abroad. However, on his third European trip, during the years of 1912 to 1914, Demuth took his first decisive step toward the avant-garde, socializing with such personalities as Gertrude and Leo Stein, Alice Toklas, Marsden Hartley, and Arnolf Ronnenbeck.Throughout the teens and 1920s, Demuth successfully exhibited with the Daniel Gallery in New York. However, in 1926, he enjoyed his first one-man show at Alfred Stieglitz's celebrated Intimate Gallery. Demuth had long since known Stieglitz, having first been introduced by Hartley in 1914, and had been involved in group shows organized by the dealer since the previous year.Demuth lived a life riddled with chronic health problems; he was stricken lame at the age of four due to an injury to his hip, and suffered from diabetes for the last fifteen years of his life. After fourteen months of illness during which he was not able to paint, Demuth, later discovered by his mother, died quietly in his bed in Lancaster.

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