Name: Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Brand: Housetops, Seashore
Price: 15000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Housetops, Seashore

watercolor and pencil on paper
8½ x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1912-16.

The artist.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Robert Evans Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bequest from the above.
Richard W.C. Weyand, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 October 1957, lot 26, sold by the above.
Dr. Charles H. Goodsell, New York, acquired from the above.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1978, acquired from the above.
Hull Gallery, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above.
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.

E. Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works," Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 426, no. 37.
A.L. Eiseman, A Study of the Development of an Artist, Charles Demuth, vol. 1, New York, 1974, p. 98.
A.L. Eiseman, Charles Demuth, New York, 1982, pp. 11, 34-35, pl. 3, illustrated.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The Eye of Stieglitz, October 7-November 2, 1978.
New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., Charles Demuth: Watercolors and Drawings, April 30-May 30, 1981, no. 20. illustrated.
New York, Owen Gallery, Modernism: An American View, May 3-June 11, 1994.

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According to art historian Dr. Alvord Eiseman, this whimsical example appears to be a depiction of Provincetown, Massachusetts.