I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
1928 · Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard (Upson board)
Dimensions : 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Demuth completed eight abstract portraits between 1924 and 1929 as tributes to modern American artists, writers, and performers. Though not a physical likeness, Demuth created this portrait of his friend, the poet and physician William Carlos Williams, using imagery from Williams’s poem
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About this artwork
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928) by Charles Demuth, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Charles Demuth
Charles Henry Buckius Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
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