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Charles Demuth

Piano Mover's Holiday

1919
Distemper on composition board
50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in)

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Versed in the European modernist styles that he encountered during trips to Europe, Charles Demuth practiced a distinctive style of precisionism that explored American cityscapes such as New York, Gloucester and Provincetown in Massachusetts, and his native Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Here, Demuth took a high vantage point, looking across pitched black roofs to the chimneys, blocky warehouses, and factories beyond. The enigmatic title is characteristic for this period of Demuth's work.

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