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Compare the zinnias filled with strong red and orange with the pale ones left as pencil outlines, then follow the gray washes of the cloth behind.
Demuth painted this in 1924, after insulin treatment had let him start working again. He came back to still life all through his career and used watercolor for flowers and fruit. Some petals are only drawn in pencil and left as bare paper, while others are filled with deep red and orange.
watercolor over graphite on wove paper · overall: 30.3 x 45.8 cm · National Gallery of Art · American modernism
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- Museum title
- Zinnias and a Blue Dish with Lemons
- Artist
- Charles Demuth American, 1883 - 1935
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 30.3 x 45.8 cm (11 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.