Charles Demuth Prints – Buildings, Numbers & Flowers
Charles Demuth prints bring machinery, buildings, numbers, flowers and performers into varied arrangements of line and colour. Sharply divided structures sit beside looser natural forms, giving the collection several distinct routes. Browse unframed prints, framed prints and canvas panels, alongside architectural art and abstract prints.
Machinery reduced to connected planes
Machinery combines upright pipes, curved forms and angled surfaces within a close arrangement of red, grey and pale colour. Parts remain suggestive of industrial objects while their edges connect across the image. Other building and machinery subjects vary the amount of recognisable structure included.
The number as the central image
Figure 5 in Gold repeats the numeral across a dense arrangement of red, dark and gold-coloured shapes. Lettering and smaller details give the image several scales of reading. The work offers a different subject from the buildings while retaining an interest in strong, overlapping forms.
Flowers in a looser setting
Yellow and Blue gathers bright blooms among pale and darker washes, with their edges less firmly bounded than the machinery. The natural subject provides a useful contrast within the collection. Other works include figures, boats and theatrical scenes as well as the architectural subjects.
Related artists and collections
Compare quiet buildings in George Ault, intense landscape colour in Oscar Bluemner and natural abstraction in Arthur Dove. Our abstract collection and cityscape art extend these relationships.
Read more in our guide to Charles Demuth.
































































