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Charles Demuth

Bermuda, Masts and Foliage

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

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In his Bermuda landscapes, Demuth experimented with cubist notions of content and form as well as with varying qualities of light. In Masts and Foliage , wispy trees in the foreground offset a crystalline, pyramidal mass of water, ships, and sky.

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