Still Life with Apples and Bananas

1925

Charles Demuth American, 1883-1935

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About the Artwork

Title Still Life with Apples and Bananas

Artwork Date 1925

Artist Charles Demuth

Life Dates 1883-1935

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Watercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper

Dimensions Sheet: 11 7/8 × 18 inches (30.2 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 23 1/16 × 29 3/8 × 1 3/8 inches (58.6 × 74.6 × 3.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.253

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, center right: C. Demuth | Lancaster | Pa. | 1925

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Provenance

1935, Virginia Nelson

Daniel Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 170, p. 171.

Cooper, Helen. "The Watercolors of Charles Demuth." The Magazine Antiques 133 (January 1988): p. 262 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press, June 4, 1978, p. 27 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News, April 10, 1983, p. 5 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News, April 14, 1985, p. 3 (ill.).

Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 205-206 (pl. 248.).

Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. Englewood Cliffs,1973 (cover ill.).

Haskell, Barbara. Charles Demuth. New York, 1987, (ill.).

Norton, T. E., ed. Homage to Charles Demuth. Ephrata, PA, 1978, p. 107 (color ill.).

Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2009, pp. 280-282, (fig. 10.1, ill.).

Mitchell, Mark D. The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2015, p. 231 (pl. 103).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Charles Demuth, Still Life with Apples and Bananas, 1925, watercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.253.