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Charles Demuth
(1883-1935)
Dunes 11 7/8 x 16 5/8 in. (30.2 x 42.2 cm.) Executed in 1915.

18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
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Charles Demuth (1883-1935)

Dunes
signed and dated 'C. Demuth / 1915' (lower left)
watercolor on paper laid down on board
11 7/8 x 16 5/8 in. (30.2 x 42.2 cm.)
Executed in 1915.

Footnotes

Provenance
Daniel Gallery, New York, acquired from the artist, circa 1915.
Ferdinand Howald (1856-1934), Columbus, Ohio, acquired from the above, 1916.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, gift from the above, April 23, 1931.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1980.
Arthur Francis Magill (1907-1995) and Alice (Holly) Hollingsworth Magill (1907-2000), Greenville, South Carolina, acquired from the above, circa 1980.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, 2007.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007.

Exhibited
Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings from the Howald Collection, January 6-February 3, 1935.
Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Water Colors and Pastels by Four Modern American Painters: Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, John Marin, Jules Pascin, December 6-21, 1939, n.p., no. 2.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Charles Demuth, March 7-June 11, 1950, pp. 23, 89, no. 20, illustrated, and elsewhere.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, Howald Water Colors, February 7-26, 1956, and elsewhere.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Watercolors from the Ferdinand Howald Collection, April 1-18, 1961.
Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, June 22-July 10, 1964.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth of Lancaster, September 24-November 6, 1966, n.p., no. 17.
The Akron Art Institute, Paintings by Charles Demuth 1883-1935, April 16-May 12, 1968, n.p., no. 15.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Three American Masters of Watercolor: Marin, Demuth, Pascin, A loan exhibition from The Ferdinand Howald Collection, The Columbus Gallery of Art, Ohio, The Cincinnati Art Museum, February 14-March 16, 1969, p. 12, no. 26.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Ferdinand Howald Collection, May 19-July 3, 1970.
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Prewar/Postwar: Modernism to Modern, September 6-October 5, 2007.

Literature
R.W.C. Weyand, Richard W.C. Weyand Scrapbooks on Charles Demuth, unpublished inventory, 1956, n.p., no. W-474.
A. Kietzmann, San Diego Union, April 29, 1956.
M. Tucker, K. Linville, American Paintings in the Ferdinand Howald Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1969, pp. 18, 21, 117, no. 15, illustrated.

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