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Charles Demuth Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Charles Demuth available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Charles Demuth Museum, Pennsylvania
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Charles Demuth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2008 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster"
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Cyclamen
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Pattern of Lilacs
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Rooftops and Trees
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Roofs and Gables, watercolor, ca.1918
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wild Orchids, ca.1920
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Art Class, Penn Academy
Narcissus
Zinnias
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Flowers, ca.1915
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
After All..., 1933
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Backdrop of East Lynne
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
3 works online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Charles Demuth at The Artchive
Charles Demuth at The Athenaeum
37 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Charles Demuth at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Demuth 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
End of the Parade: Coatesville, Pa., 1920
Resource Library Magazine
Eggplant, Carrots and Tomatoes, 1927
The New York Observer
"On Charles Demuth: Intimate Paintings, But Images Expand", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster", brief 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Letters of Charles Demuth
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