In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Two tall trees with wavy trunks screen a group of houses, suggested by overlapping red and black rectangles. The compressed setting reads as a series of receding registers and probably captures a view from a hotel on Saint George's Island, Bermuda. Demuth stayed there with his friend Marsden Hartley after both had worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they experimented with cubism. The combination, as here, of hard geometric forms with curved organic shapes is perhaps what prompted Dr. Barnes to compare Demuth's landscapes to an 18th-century Chinese portrait of an abbot on silk from his collection (BF86).
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Max Weber (American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Poland], 1
Morton Schamberg — Untitled
Edgar Degas — Seated Woman in Bonnet and Shawl
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)
Paul Cézanne — Study of Trees
Wols — Bird's-Eye View
Wols — Boats
Morton Schamberg — Untitled
Wols — Color Motif
Paul Klee — After a Sketch from Zurich (Nach einer Scizze au
Wols — Feather-Like Motif
Marsden Hartley — Movement, Bermuda
