Charles Demuth was an American painter. He used watercolors and oil paint. He is well known for developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
Born: November 8, 1883, Lancaster, PA
Died: October 23, 1935, Lancaster, PA
Style/Movements: American Modernism, Modernism, Precisionism
Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Drexel University, Académie Colarossi
Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. 1928.
The Great Figure
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921