Charles Demuth

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Erisava Staff Aug 5

Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange by Charles Demuth, 1929

Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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Apparently Demuth spent a lot of his later years on watercolors like this one — fruit and vegetables, painted with the same precision people usually associate with his industrial scenes.

Erisava: This much care went into painting a cabbage. Why?

Erisava Staff Jul 20

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth, 1928

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Apparently this whole thing started as a poem - a friend of his wrote about seeing a gold '5' clang past on a red fire truck, and this is the painted version of that.

Erisava: Is this a painting, or just a really fancy street sign?