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Twelve Nude Boys at the Beach (ca. 1914), Charles Demuth
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Twelve Nude Boys at the Beach (ca. 1914), Charles Demuth
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth. It has been described as influenced by Futurism and Cubism.
"INCENSE OF A NEW CHURCH" CHARLES DEMUTH // 1921 [oil on canvas | 26 × 20 1/8"]
Charles Demuth: “Twelve Nude Boys at the Beach” (1914)
In Vaudeville: Acrobatic Male Dancer with Top Hat
Artist: Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935)
Date: 1920
Medium: Watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper
Collection: Barnes Foundation Art Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States
About the Artist: Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
Distinguished Air (1930) watercolor by Charles Demuth This watercolor by Charles Demuth is based on a short story by Robert McAlmon, set in the decadent, sex and drugs-filled world of post-World War I Berlin. Demuth recasts a scene from the story, which took place in one of Berlin’s “queer cafes,” as the opening of an art exhibition where a provocative woman in evening dress, a male homosexual couple, and a heterosexual couple look at Constantin Brancusi’s famous sculpture, Princess X, (1915-16), whose overtly phallic form scandalized many contemporary viewers. The title “Distinguished Air” is derived from the narrator’s description of the protagonist, a worldly but dissolute American. Here, the gentleman carrying a cane seems to gaze at the crotch of the sailor, obliquely mirroring the infatuation of McAlmon’s protagonist with a handsome soldier. In the 1930s, Demuth’s watercolors often contained themes of underground sexual freedom and licentiousness, subjects which likely had personal resonance for the artist as a homosexual in a culture which was largely inhospitable. (Source: Whitney Museum of Art)
Male Nude, 1905-10
Charles Demuth
Watercolor, and graphite
Yale University Art Gallery
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
American Artist
