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Charles Demuth

Dancing Sailors

1917
watercolor over graphite

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This drawing was exhibited only once during the artist's lifetime, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—notable since he otherwise did not show them publicly.

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