Vaudeville: Two Men

Maker Charles Demuth (American, 1883 - 1935)

Collections

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1916

Mediumwatercolor and graphite on paper

SignedSigned in lower left of recto: C. Demuth

InscribedSigned in lower left of recto: C. Demuth

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Margery and Maurice Katz

Status

Not on view

Label TextCharles Demuth is best known for his dynamic paintings of fire engines and grain elevators done in a Precisionist style similar to that of Charles Sheeler (whose work is on view elsewhere in this gallery). However, he also loved New York and adopted the city's nightlife as one of his subjects. In Vaudeville: Two Men he used vivid colors and a sensuous, fluid style to depict a painted backdrop and suggest the movement of two dancers from a variety show. A deft stroke of the artist's pencil gives the dancer on the left a witty wink.

Object number2003.17