About the Artwork
Still Life with Apples and Bananas
1925
Charles Demuth
1883-1935
American
Unknown
Watercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 18 inches (30.2 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 23 1/16 × 29 3/8 × 1 3/8 inches (58.6 × 74.6 × 3.5 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.253
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, center right: C. Demuth | Lancaster | Pa. | 1925
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Watermark, left edge: (WHAT)MAN 1921 ENGLAND Label, on backing: The Daniel Gallery | 2 West 47 Street | New York | Still Life - Apple | and Bananas by | Charles Demuth
Provenance
1935, Virginia Nelson
Daniel Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 170, p. 171.
Cooper, Helen. "The Watercolors of Charles Demuth." The Magazine Antiques 133 (January 1988): p. 262 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press, June 4, 1978, p. 27 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News, April 10, 1983, p. 5 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News, April 14, 1985, p. 3 (ill.).
Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 205-206 (pl. 248.).
Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. Englewood Cliffs,1973 (cover ill.).
Haskell, Barbara. Charles Demuth. New York, 1987, (ill.).
Norton, T. E., ed. Homage to Charles Demuth. Ephrata, PA, 1978, p. 107 (color ill.).
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2009, pp. 280-282, (fig. 10.1, ill.).
Mitchell, Mark D. The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2015, p. 231 (pl. 103).
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Charles Demuth, Still Life with Apples and Bananas, 1925, watercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.253.
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