Demuth, Charles Henry Buckius

(11/8/1883 Lancaster, PA-10/23/1935 Lancaster) (USA)

   Painter, watercolorist, poster designer, and illustrator. Studied at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under T. Anschutz, H. Mc-Carter, H. Breckenridge, and W. Chase. The ho-moeroticism in some of his paintings have inspired increased attention by art historians.

   Reproductions: Turkish bath scene with self portrait; 1918; water- color; Smith, 1980: p. 103 .

   Source: Kermit Champa, "Charlie was like that," Artfo-rum 12, 6 (March 1974): pp. 54-59; DoA vol. 8: pp. 708-709; Barbara Haskell, Charles Demuth (New York: Whitney Museum, 1987); Gerard Koskovich, "A gay American modernist: homosexuality in the life and art of Charles Demuth," Advocate 25 (June 1985): pp. 50-52; Sanford Schwartz, "Auctions: glimpsing the 'hidden' De-muth," Art in America 64 (September-October 1976): pp. 102-103; Jonathan Weinberg, "Some unknown thing: the illustrations of Charles Demuth" Arts Magazine 61 (December 1986): pp. 14-21; Jonathan Weinberg, "De-muth and difference," Art in America 76, 4 (April 1988): pp. 188-195+; Richard Whelan, "Charles Demuth: the resonance of ambiguity," Christopher Street 3, 6 (January 1979): pp. 16-18.