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Charles Demuth

Bermuda: Tree

1917
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 in)

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Demuth visited Bermuda in 1916–17, and while there he painted a breakthrough series of landscapes inspired by cubism and the works of Cézanne. The formidable subject of Bermuda: Tree has two main trunks and multiple gnarled boughs, from which soft and light new branches grow. The tree's limbs seem to fracture the surrounding space into a network of interpenetrating planes.

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