Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth was a gay American Precisionist painter. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and studied at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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• There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.
  • Quoted in Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde by Jonathan Weinberg (Yale University Press, 1993)

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• Paintings must be looked at and looked at and looked at... no writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.