Charles
Demuth was one of the most stylistically innovative watercolor
artists of the 20th century. Charles Demuth was born in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only and indulged child of
successful business people--so financially secure that
Demuth never had to work for a living, although he was
never wealthy. Demuth had a sense of self-certainty and
stability permeated Charles Demuth's family environment.
At age four or five, Demuth suffered from Perthes, a disease
that left him with one short leg due to deformation of
the hip joint. Demuth's watercolors range from translucent
landscape abstractions to decorative florals, stylized
still lifes, miniature narrative scenes, lively circus
and vaudeville arabesques, and unashamedly explicit homoerotic
idylls. Demuth often accented or shaped areas (such as
the umber cushions and lampshade) by blotting them. Recently
published works on Demuth readily acknowledge his homosexuality.
His sexual orientation is, in fact, impossible to ignore.
Along with his landmark architectural studies and floral
watercolors, there exists a body of work that is unquestionably
homoerotic. Art scholars and historians now present his
colorful life in all its hues, and publish the Provincetown
sailors along with the Lancaster grain mills.
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