by While in Lancaster we popped into the Demuth Museum; we had read it was small and quick, and that’s an understatement. The museum is housed in where American Modernist Artist Charles Demuth spent most of his life, but it was mostly filled with exhibitions featuring local artists and very little of Demuth’s work.
Demuth was frail and died in his 50s in 1935, but he still managed to produce over 1,000 works of art. He is best known for “My Egypt” and “I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold”, neither of which were on display. Demuth created the genre ‘poster portrait’, which were portraits of artists not in the traditional sense (i.e., a literal painting of the person) but as objects and words that were representative of the person; this sounds very interesting, but again, there were none on display (though they were covered in the short film that we watched).
