Portrait of Augusta B. Demuth [the artist’s mother] (1986)

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Welcome to our latest exhibit featuring "Portrait of Augusta B. Demuth," a poignant artwork by American painter Charles Demuth, dated 1927. This delicate portrait captures the artist's mother, Augusta B. Demuth, presented in a profile view that highlights her dignified demeanor and thoughtful expression.Rendered primarily in soft pencil, the piece utilizes light and shadow to model Augusta's features delicately, bringing forth a sense of depth and introspection. The artist's gentle strokes and the muted palette emphasize the tender and intimate relationship between mother and son, while also reflecting the son's deep reverence and nuanced understanding of his subject.The composition focuses on the tranquility and the seasoned grace of Mrs. Demuth, conveying a sense of quiet resilience. Her gaze, directed slightly upwards and out of the frame, suggests contemplation and a serene acceptance of the twilight years of her life. Demuth's use of minimal detailing, aside from the essential contours and folds of her face and neck, serves to focus the viewer's attention on the essence of her character, rather than the superficial details.This portrait is not only a personal homage but also an exemplary piece of American modernism that resonates with the themes of identity, familial bonds, and the subtleties of human expression.

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Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was one of the leading artists during the American Modernism era. He was distinguished for intimate watercolors and cubic architectural paintings. Demuth studied art at Académie Julian in Paris, where he was welcomed into the avant-garde art scene and met other American Cubism artists like Marsden Hartley. His watercolor figures have a weightless and surrealistic character with a sensitive linear style, in which he illustrated plays and novels such as Émile Zola's Nana. He also depicted an evolving gay scene of encounters at bath houses through watercolors for his close friends, like the "Turkish Bath", works that now are of great historical significance. Demuth later employed a cubist technique by painting industrial factories with complex structural planes, leading him to becoming a pioneer for the precisionist movement.