id: 172894 accession number: 1923.2490 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.2490 updated: 2025-04-29 12:32:11.911000 Amaryllis, c. 1923. Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935). Watercolor over graphite; sheet: 45.8 x 30.4 cm (18 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1923.2490 title: Amaryllis title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1923 creation date earliest: 1918 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: America technique: watercolor over graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 45.8 x 30.4 cm (18 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00 Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Exhibition of the Month: The Floral Motif in Art opening date: 1947-07-29T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: The Floral Motif in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29-September 30, 1947). title: Horticulture Motifs in Art opening date: 1955-03-09T05:00:00 Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955). title: Water Color opening date: 1962-06-06T04:00:00 Water Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962). title: Charles Demuth opening date: 1966-09-24T04:00:00 Charles Demuth. The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (September 24-November 6, 1966). title: Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living opening date: 1971-10-05T04:00:00 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-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (March 19-April 16, 1972). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: Charles Demuth opening date: 1987-10-15T04:00:00 Charles Demuth. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (February 25-April 24, 1988). title: Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988 opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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).', 'opening_date': '1967-10-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Charles Demuth. Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 7 - June 11, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-03-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Charles Demuth: Exhibition of Water Colors and Oil Paintings. Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. (May 3 - May 25, 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-05-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 15, 1937 - January 16, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1937-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Contemporary American Watercolors. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 1923 - January 27, 1924).', 'opening_date': '1923-12-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Watercolors by Charles Demuth. Daniel Gallery, New York (November - December 1923). As 'The Lily'", 'opening_date': '1923-11-28T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE (Daniel Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1923 footnotes: *
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.
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1923- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Haskell, Barbara. Charles Demuth. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 79 url: Gerdts, William H. American Still-Life Painting, 1913-1967. Exh. Cat. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1967. page number: Mentioned: no. 6 url: McBride, Henry. Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937 page number: Mentioned: no. 63 url: 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 page number: Mentioned: p. 40 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137832 Charles Demuth: Exhibition of Water Colors and Oil Paintings. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1942. page number: Mentioned: no. 21 url: Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. Charles Demuth. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950. page number: Mentioned: pp. 78, 92, no. 123; Reproduced: p. 78 url: Farnham, Emily. "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works." Ph.D. diss. Ohio State University, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 583, no. 435; Reproduced: p. 862 url: Charles Demuth of Lancaster. Exh. Cat. Harrisburg, PA: William Penn Memorial Museum, 1966. page number: Mentioned: no. 94 url: Farnham, Emily. Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. page number: Mentioned: p. 149 url: Gedhard, David and Phyllis Plous. Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living. Exh. Cat. Santa Barbara, CA: Art Galleries, University of California, 1971. page number: Mentioned: p. 83, no. 85 url: Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 18; Reproduced: p. 19 url: Anderson, Dennis R. American Flower Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 64; Reproduced: p. 65 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 12, pp. 242-243, 297; Reproduced: p. 243 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.2490/1923.2490_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.2490/1923.2490_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.2490/1923.2490_full.tif