id: 150174 accession number: 1980.9 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.9 updated: 2024-10-10 11:14:26.622000 Dancing Sailors, 1917. Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935). Watercolor over graphite; sheet: 20.4 x 25.7 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.); secondary support: 21.4 x 26.3 cm (8 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1980.9 title: Dancing Sailors title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century 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: 20.4 x 25.7 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 21.4 x 26.3 cm (8 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(2) wove paper, laid down on gray board watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, center left, in graphite: C. Demuth-1917-; verso of secondary support, upper right, in graphite: 121444.3 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: The Sailor 1930-45: The Image of an American Demigod opening date: 1983-01-20T05:00:00 The Sailor 1930-45: The Image of an American Demigod. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (January 20-March 13, 1983). title: Charles Demuth opening date: 1987-10-15T04:00:00 Charles Demuth. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15-January 17, 1987); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (February 25-April 24, 1988); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (May 8-July 10, 1988); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (August 7-October 2, 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: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). 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). title: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture opening date: 2010-10-30T00:00:00 Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 30, 2010-February 13, 2011); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (November 18, 2011-February 18, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Modern Works of Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-11-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans. Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 13, 1929 - January 12, 1930).', 'opening_date': '1929-12-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Charles Demuth, sold to Albert Rothbart, Ridgefield, CT date: 1917-by 1929 footnotes: citations: Albert Rothbart [1874-1965], Ridgefield, CT date: by 1929-probably 1965 footnotes: citations: (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 14, 1970, no. 29) date: 1970 footnotes: citations: (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1980 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1980- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Paintings by Nineteen Living Artists. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1929 page number: Mentioned: p. 17, no. 8 url: Barr, Jr., Alfred H., ed. Modern Works of Art. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1934. page number: Mentioned: p. 28; Reproduced: no. 64 url: Farnham, Emily. "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works." Ph.D. diss. Ohio State University, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 507, no. 233 url: "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux Arts 97, no. 1346 (March 1981). page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 236 url: "Year in Review for 1980." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981). page number: Mentioned: p. 213; Reproduced: p. 199 url: Eiseman, Alvord L. Charles Demuth. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 47; Reproduced: p. 46 url: Sokolowski, Thomas W. The Sailor 1930-45: The Image of an American Demigod. Exh. Cat. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 109; Reproduced: p. 41 url: Haskell, Barbara. Charles Demuth. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 87, no. 26 url: Shone, Richard. "New York 20th-century exhibitions." Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1018 (January 1988): 57-60. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58 url: Weinberg, Jonathan. Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. page number: pp. 99-100; Reproduced: p. 98 url: Foster, Carter E., "Drawing Power", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 04, April 1998 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-04/page/4 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: pp. 240-241, 297; Reproduced: p. 241 url: Weinberg, Jonathan. Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 39, 41 url: Katz, Jonathan D. and David C. Ward. Hide and Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 86; Reproduced: p. 87, plate 10 url: Morris, Anthony J. "The Censored Paintings of Paul Cadmus, 1934-1940: The Body as the Boundary Between the Decent and Obscene." PhD diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2010. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 219 url: Lord, Catherine and Richard Meyer. Art & Queer Culture. London: Phaidon, 2013. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 70 url: Cozzolino, Robert, et. al.,eds.World War I and American Art. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in association with Princeton University Press, 2016. p. 176 page number: Reproduced: p. 176, pl. 41 url: Lord, Catherine, and Richard Meyer. Art & Queer Culture.
London : Phaidon, 2019. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 66 url: --- IMAGES