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"title": "Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today",
"description": "Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).",
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"title": "Charles Demuth",
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"title": "Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living",
"description": "Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (October 5-November 7, 1971); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (November 22, 1971-January 3, 1972); The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (January 19-February 29, 1972); Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY (March 19-April 16, 1972).",
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"title": "Charles Demuth",
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"title": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "American Still-Life Painting, 1913-1967. Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA (October 6 - October 27, 1967); Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, NY (November 10 - December 1, 1967); Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV (December 15 - January 5, 1967); Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (January 19 - February 9, 1968); Flint Institute of Arts, DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI (February 23 - March 15, 1968); Mansfield Fine Arts Guild, Inc., Mansfield, OH (March 29 - April 19, 1968); Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (May 8 - May 29, 1968); Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Art Center, Kalamazoo, MI (June 7 - June 28, 1968); Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (July 12 - August 2, 1968); Dulin Gallery of Art, College of Arts and Crafts, Knoxville, TN (September 20 - October 10, 1968); University of Maryland, College Park, MD (October 24 - November 14, 1968).",
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"description": "Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 15, 1937 - January 16, 1938).",
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"description": "Contemporary American Watercolors. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 1923 - January 27, 1924).",
"opening_date": "1923-12-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "Watercolors by Charles Demuth. Daniel Gallery, New York (November - December 1923). As 'The Lily'",
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"description": "(Daniel Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"Farnham 1959 (583, no. 435) incorrectly listed Hinman B. Hurlbut as an owner, her confusion arising because the drawing was purchased with a fund bearing his name. Hurlbut died in 1888.
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"did_you_know": "This watercolor was purchased by the museum during its first exhibition, at Daniel Gallery in New York, and was one of the first works by Charles Demuth to enter a public museum collection.",
"description": "Still-life was one of Charles Demuth's favorite genres, and he created works on this theme throughout his career. This drawing of a blooming amaryllis was completed while the artist was convalescing with diabetes in his hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Because of his physical weakness, he was limited to working in watercolor, a less demanding medium than painting, and to subjects that he could easily observe, such as flowers. Demuth drew the amaryllis's form in graphite and then brushed on watercolor precisely, using a blotter to develop the pebbly texture seen throughout.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 79",
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"citation": "Gerdts, William H. American Still-Life Painting, 1913-1967. Exh. Cat. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1967.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Museum Water Colors and the Thirteenth Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 3 (March 1937): 39-41",
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"citation": "Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. Charles Demuth. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950.",
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"citation": "Farnham, Emily. \"Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works.\" Ph.D. diss. Ohio State University, 1959.",
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"citation": "Charles Demuth of Lancaster. Exh. Cat. Harrisburg, PA: William Penn Memorial Museum, 1966.",
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"citation": "Farnham, Emily. Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.",
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"citation": "Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
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