...And the Home of the Brave  1931

by Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth’s still lifes and architectural studies display astonishing technical skill and testify to the refinement with which he manipulated abstract design. In his paintings of the early 1930s, the artist often interpreted structures in his hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Obviously not a literal representation of that location , [i]… And the Home of the Brave[/...
Size: 
74.8 × 59.7 cm (29 1/2 × 23 1/2 in.)
Medium: 
Oil and graphite on fiber board
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago