Charles Demuth

Cucumbers and a Flask of Daisies
c. 1924

A watercolor painting featuring an abstract composition with two white daisies with yellow centers, emerging from a blue vase against a backdrop of soft, overlapping shapes in shades of blue, green, and brown. The painting has a dreamy, ethereal quality with a light wash of colors.
A watercolor painting featuring an abstract composition with two white daisies with yellow centers, emerging from a blue vase against a backdrop of soft, overlapping shapes in shades of blue, green, and brown. The painting has a dreamy, ethereal quality with a light wash of colors.

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Date
c. 1924

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 11 7/8 × 17 7/8in. (30.2 × 45.4 cm) Image (sight): 11 7/8 × 17 7/8in. (30.2 × 45.4 cm)

Accession number
2017.70

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Hess Family

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Charles Demuth
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