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Spring  1921

by Charles Demuth

In [i]Spring[/i] Charles Demuth depicted the sample cards used to advertise new spring fabrics. Pablo Picasso was the first to create such painted collages—a practice called Synthetic Cubism. Although Demuth saw examples of the style in both New York and Paris, he only experimented with it once, in this work. Here his subject allowed him to construct the ideal modernist pa...
Size: 
56.2 × 61.3 cm (22 1/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil and graphite on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago