Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935: With Assessments of His Work by His Contemporaries - Hardcover

Kellner, Bruce

9781566397803: Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935: With Assessments of His Work by His Contemporaries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566397804 ISBN 13: 9781566397803

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2000

This collection of the letters of Charles Demuth, American modernist, offers views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York and Paris. Besides his own works, the letters shed light on his contemporaries', as well as their trips, liaisons and idiosyncrasies.

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From the Publisher:

The correspondence of a celebrated 1920s artist with his famous contemporaries

From the Inside Flap:

"I always enjoyed [Charles Demuth]. I though him more fun than the other artists. He was a better friend with me than any of the other artists." —Georgia O'Keefe (interview, Lancaster New Era, 1986)

"The main point about his personality is a quaint charm, a quality of appealing, inquisitive friendliness, always willing to listen, eager to sympathize, to like and to be liked." —Eugene O'Neill (about a character based on Demuth in Strange Interlude, 1928)

"Charles traversed the all in all thin area of esthetic experience with a firm step, and he left footprints here and there which have long since been measured and found of the proper size." —Marsden Hartley ("Farewell Charles," 1936)

"An artist worthy of the name, without the pettiness which affects most artists, worshiping his inner self without the usual eagerness to be right. Demuth was also one of the few artists whom all other artists liked as a real friend, a rare case indeed." —Marcel Duchamp ("A Tribute to the Artist," exhibition catalog, 1949)

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