In Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider

1919

Charles Demuth

Artist, American, 1883 - 1935

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Francis Biddle, Washington, DC, 1928; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • 26th Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1928

1957

  • Selections from the Collection of the Honorable and Mrs. Francis Biddle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957, no. 15, repro

1963

  • The New Tradition—Modern Americans before 1940, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963, p. 57, no. 26

1966

  • Charles Demuth, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, 1966

1967

  • An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, and John Marin, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1967

1968

  • Charles Demuth, Akron Art Institute, Ohio, 1968

1971

  • Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living, Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Munson-WIlliams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1971-1972

1980

  • That’s Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 14

1981

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 100-101, no. 37, repro

1987

  • Charles Demuth, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 1987-1988, p. 93, no. 33, repro

2007

  • Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007

2015

  • Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 176, no. 1198.

1993

  • Weinberg, Jonathan. Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 55.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: C Demuth 1919-

Wikidata ID

Q64538467


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