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Charles Demuth

Bermuda: Rooftops through Trees

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. In Rooftop through Trees , two tree boughs form an almond-shaped frame for a vista of blocky buildings. The buildings' rigid forms are offset by the trees' gentle curves—the smaller branches are rendered so lightly as to appear ghostly.

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