Charles Demuth
American, 1883-1935
...And the Home of the Brave, 1931
Oil and graphite on fiber board
74.8 x 59.7 cm (30 x 24 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1948.650
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition, Dec. 15, 1937-Jan. 16, 1938, cat. 37.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Charles Demuth, 1950, cat. 153.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred-Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Jan. 15-Mar. 13, 1955, cat. 236.
Paris, Musse National d’Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, Realismes entre Revolution et ReaConnon, Dec. 17, 1980-Apr. 20, 1981, p. 253; traveled to Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, May 10-June 30, 1981.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Precisionist Painting and American Photography, Sept. 9, 1982-Nov. 7, 1982, cat. 40; traveled to St. Louis Art Museum, Dec. 6, 1982-Jan. 30, 1983, Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 28-?, 1983, Des Moines Art Center, May 2-July 17, 1983, Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 15-Oct. 9, 1983.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth, Oct. 14, 1987-Jan. 16, 1988; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 25-Apr. 24, 1988.
LeHavre, France, Musee des Beaux Arts, Transparence 1920-1980, Sept. 14-Nov. 26, 1995.
Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 20-May 29, 1994, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art Aug. 6-Sept. 25, 1994.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America, Jan. 28-Apr. 22, 2001.
Publication History
The Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 43 (Nov. 1949), p. 65 (ill.).
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 124.
James M. Dennis, Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998), pp. 212-14 (ill.).
Ownership History
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, to 1948; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.