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Set the grainy, blotted texture in the pink shapes behind the stalks beside the clean red of the open flowers.
Demuth made this amaryllis while he was recovering from diabetes in his home town of Lancaster, too weak for oil paint and keeping to subjects close at hand. He drew the plant in pencil, brushed on watercolor with care and used a blotter to give the paint a grainy texture. The Cleveland Museum of Art bought it in 1923, one of the first works by Demuth to enter a public museum.
watercolor over graphite · Sheet: 45.8 x 30.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · American modernism
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- Museum title
- Amaryllis
- Artist
- Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935)
- Date
- c. 1923
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 45.8 x 30.4 cm (18 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.