Charles Demuth wasborn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1883. A versatile artist,he was acclaimed for his cubist-derived paintings of American cityscapes as well as his sensuous, richly colored watercolors of still lifes and figure groups. Charles Demuth studied at the Drexel Institute of Art and later at the Pennsylvania Institute of Art and Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. A virtuoso with water color of the most delicious clarity and the subtlest nuance of pearly tones…Demuth turned to Cubism. Its use of planes, describing boundaries and direction of forms in space, gave him his chance to make out of geometry and its meaning for art something personal, by combining its austerity of ruled lines, its interpenetrating planes and angles, with his own special gift for flowing fascinating color. He knows also the value of suggestion and isolates fragments which suggest how the rest of the big world could be seen after the same fashion.”