Charles Demuth 1883 - 1935

Robert E. Locher, New York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1935 (acquired directly from the artist)
Richard C. Weyand, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1956 (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Watercolors and Paintings by Charles Demuth, Part Two of the Collection Belonging to the Late Richard W.C. Weyand, February 5, 1958, no. 17)
Mrs. James Cox Brady, Far Hills, New Jersey (acquired at the above sale)
Henry M. Libhart
Robert Nation, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1973 (acquired from the above)
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1991 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 1995, lot 192, illustrated)
Private collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (acquired at the above sale)

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Demuth Foundation, Tenth Anniversary Celebration, December 1992
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26-May 17, 2009, pp. 291-292, 301, 537

Richard C. Weyand, Scrapbooks, no. 229A and 229B
Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. II, (Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus), 1959, nos. 542 and 544, pp. 627-628

Very good condition. Unframed: faint matburn along right and top edges, hinged to the mat in two places along the top edge.
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