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 and traveling, March 8 – June 11, 1950;Twenty-Nine Watercolors by Charles Demuth, Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, January 3 – 11, 1948; Charles Demuth: Exhibition of Water Colors and Oil Paintings, Phillips Memorial Gallery, May 3 – 25, 1942; Memorial Exhibition: Water Colors by Charles Demuth, 1883–1935, Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, 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, December 15, 1937 – January 16, 1938.ProvenanceThe artist. Inherited by Robert Locher, 1935. Richard W.C. Weyand, Lancaster, PA by 1956. Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased through Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 16, 1957, lot 78. Mrs. Frederick Emert. M. Knoedler & Co., New York. Kaufamm Collection, California, 1966–1996. James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, purchased through Babcock Galleries, May 28, 1996.Published ReferencesAmerican Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 22, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), n.p. (ill., color, no. 127). Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937), n.p. (no. 97). Eiseman, Alvord L., “A Study of the Development of an Artist: Charles Demuth,” 2 vols. (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1975), 2:410 n. 424, 417. Farnham, Emily, “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). An Intimate Eye (2005), 8 (ill., color), 9. Malone, Mrs. John E. “Charles Demuth,” Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society 52 (1948): n.p (ill.), 15. McConeghey, Howard, Art and Soul (Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2003), cover (ill., color), 8, n.p. (ill., color, fig. 1). McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 120 (ill., color). Memorial Exhibition: Water Colors by Charles Demuth, 1883–1935 (brochure) (Lancaster, Pa.: Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, 1941), n.p. (no. 3). Monro, Isabel Stevenson, 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. 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). Norman, Dorothy, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York: Random House, 1973), 170 (ill., fig. 75). Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff, 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]. Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) Front Cover, 6, 64-65, 181, 182 (ill. front cover, 64, 181). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 114 (ill.), 115. Twenty-Nine Watercolors by Charles Demuth (brochure) (Lancaster, Pa.: Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, 1948), n.p. (no. 20). 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).