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Charles Demuth
1883-1935
Study for Two Acrobats. Verso: Study of a Head, Male
1918
Graphite pencil on laid paper; verso: graphite pencil.
12 15/16 x 8 inches (328 x 203 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.106
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Watermark: dandy roll: "Clover Linen / Goldsmith Bros."
Between 1916 and 1919, American modernist Charles Demuth painted thirty-one vignettes of acrobats, tumblers, and jugglers for a series of circus figures in his favored medium of watercolor. This drawing of two acrobats is one of several studies for a 1918 watercolor in the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Both the lack of a ground line and the fluidity of the line contribute to a sense of weightlessness.
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Davis & Long, New York; Joseph F. McCrindle, New York (McCrindle collection no. A0321).
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