Loose prints

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Description

Title
Loose prints
Contributor
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works
Published / Created
undated
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonneĢ related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.

Description
Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism.
Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988.
Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
YCAL MSS 760
Collection Title
Richard W. C. Weyand collection of Charles Demuth
Collection / Other Creator
Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
Collection Date
1940-1976 (bulk 1940-1957)
Collection Note
Auction Catalogs
Container / Volume
Box 4 | Folder 144

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Manuscripts
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic)
Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster
LGBTQ resource
Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

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Citation
Richard W. C. Weyand Collection of Charles Demuth. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
11667459
Object ID (OID)
17218734

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