On "That" Street
1932 · Watercolor over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory board
27.8 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Charles Demuth
Artist
PaintingCubism
Representation
None documented
51
Institutional Exhibitions
47
Works in Collection
64
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983–1984
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Words and Pictures
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
About
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Charles Demuth was an American painter who developed a distinctive approach to modernism through sharply angled, semi-abstract compositions of industrial structures, flowers, and architectural forms. Working primarily in watercolor and oil, he synthesized Cubist fragmentation with precise linear geometry and a restrained palette of grays and warm ochres. His paintings of grain elevators and factory buildings transformed utilitarian American landscapes into formal studies of intersecting planes and light. Demuth's work bridged European modernist abstraction and American precisionist aesthetics during the early twentieth century.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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