First Touring Exhibition of Demuth Museum Collection

Tuesday, 02 October 2007 03:19

LANCASTER, PA – The Demuth Museum announces our first-ever touring exhibition and catalogue of our permanent collection of works by modernist artist Charles Demuth (1883-1935). The Demuth Museum Collection is comprised of over thirty works that span the artist’s career, from early childhood drawings to late floral works. Many among them were long held in private hands in Lancaster and were seldom or never publicly exhibited before joining the Demuth Museum’s permanent collection.

While individual works have been previously lent to exhibitions at other institutions, the collection as a whole has never been seen outside of Lancaster. Out of the Chateau: Works from the Demuth Museum will debut at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where Demuth studied.

In tandem with the exhibition, the Demuth Museum published the first comprehensive catalogue of the museum’s permanent collection, also to be released this month. Each work in the collection is represented with full-color reproductions along with additional scholarly resources. The Demuth Museum’s Executive Director, Anne M. Lampe discuses Demuth’s contributions to early American modernism, along with the unique history of Demuth in his native Lancaster. Additional illustrations highlight the rich holdings of the Demuth Museum’s Archive and Library, including early photographs of Demuth and correspondence between the artist and his contemporaries. Also entitled Out of the Chateau: Works from the Demuth Museum, this catalogue is the first survey of any museum’s Demuth holdings to be published.

Out of the Chateau: Works from the Demuth Museum will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from September 22 – December 7, 2007; the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at George Washington University in Washington D.C. from January 16 – March 14, 2008, and several additional venues through 2009. The catalogue will be available for purchase at the Demuth Museum, and each tour venue, beginning in late-September.

The Demuth Museum was established in 1981 to preserve and promote the art of Charles Demuth (1883-1935). As a leader of the American Modernist movement, Demuth is best known as a pioneer of the precisionist style and a master watercolorist. Located in the artist’s former home and studio in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Demuth Museum has a permanent collection of over 30 Demuth works, along with an extensive archive and library. The Demuth Tobacco Shop, the oldest operating shop of its kind in America, and other historic buildings surround the museum; all are open to the public. All exhibits are supported in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. The Demuth Museum is also supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Demuth Museum, 120 E. King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602
www.demuth.org