Eggplant and Tomatoes

Artist Charles Demuth (American 1883–1935)

Datec. 1927

MediumWatercolor on paper

DimensionsSheet: 13 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (35.2 x 50.5 cm), frame: 24 3/4 x 30 5/8 x 2 1/2 in. (62.9 x 77.8 x 6.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.55

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryMADE IN PA on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, June 1–September 8, 2024 An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Specimen: Natural History and American Modernism, 1900–1950, Palmer Museum of Art, June 15–September 12, 2004 Capturing the Light: A Collection of Twentieth-Century American Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, January 28–May 18, 1997 New Orleans Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Owned by New Orleanians, New Orleans Museum of Art, November 14, 1971–January 9, 1972 Charles Demuth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 8–June 11, 1950; Detroit Institute of Arts, October 1–29, 1950; University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, November 20–December 12, 1950; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, December 28, 1950–January 18, 1951; Williams College, Williamstown, MA, February 3–24, 1951; University of Delaware, Newark, DE, March 10–31, 1951; Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April 14–May 5, 1951; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, May 19–June 9, 1951 Twenty-Nine Watercolors by Charles Demuth, Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, January 3–11, 1948 Charles Demuth: Exhibition of Water Colors and Oil Paintings, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC, May 3–25, 1942 Memorial Exhibition: Water Colors by Charles Demuth, 1883–1935, Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, January 20–26, 1941 Marin and Demuth: Wizards of Watercolor, Philadelphia Art Alliance, February 14–March 5, 1939 Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 15, 1937–January 16, 1938ProvenanceThe artist Robert E. Locher, by descent, 1935 Richard W. C. Weyand, Lancaster, PA, by 1948 Kraushaar Galleries, New York Watercolors and Paintings by Charles Demuth: Part One of the Artist's Own Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Richard W. C. Weyand, Lancaster, PA, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 16, 1957, sale 1772, lot 78 Mrs. Frederick Emert M. Knoedler & Company, New York Mrs. Richard Kaufmann, New Orleans and California, 1966–96 American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 1996, sale 6854, lot 127 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1996 from Babcock Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesRobinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania—An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review 33, no. 4 (2021): 114 (ill., color), 115. Joyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), front cover, 6, 64 (fig. 5), 65, 181 (ill., color), 182. McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 120 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 8 (ill., color), 9, 13 (no. 26). McConeghey, Howard, Art and Soul (Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2003), cover (ill., color), 8, n.p. (ill., color, fig. 1). American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 22, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), n.p. (ill., color, no. 127). Alvord L. Eiseman, “A Study of the Development of an Artist: Charles Demuth,” 2 vols. (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1975), 2:410 n. 424, 417. Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York: Random House, 1973), 170 (ill., fig. 75). New Orleans Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Owned by New Orleanians (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1971), n.p. (no. 120). Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American Paintings, First Supplement, A guide to pictures occurring in more than four hundred works (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1964), 134. Emily Farnham, “Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works,” 3 vols. (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1959), 1:331–34, 2:611 (no. 502), 3:887 (ill., no. 134). Watercolors and Paintings by Charles Demuth, American: 1883–1935: Part One of the Artist’s Own Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Richard W. C. Weyland. (New York: Parke-Bernet, Inc., 1957), 27 (ill., no. 78). Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Charles Demuth (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950, [1980]), 80 (ill.), 92 (no. 137) [reprinted in Three Painters of America: Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper, 1969, same pagination]. Mrs. John E. Malone “Charles Demuth,” Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society 52 (1948): n.p (ill.), 15. Twenty-Nine Watercolors by Charles Demuth (brochure) (Lancaster, PA: Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, 1948), n.p. (no. 20). Memorial Exhibition: Water Colors by Charles Demuth, 1883–1935 (brochure) (Lancaster, PA: Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, 1941), n.p. (no. 3). Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937), n.p. (no. 97).