Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange
1929
Charles Demuth brings a burst of garden-fresh energy to the page with this vibrant still life, featuring deep purple cabbages, pink rhubarb stalks, and a solitary orange. Created in 1929, this piece showcases his Precisionist style, which usually focused on industrial landscapes, but here he applies that same crisp, geometric clarity to organic forms. Demuth often painted the produce from his own garden in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, turning everyday vegetables into bold, colorful studies of light and shape. It's a refreshing reminder that even the humble cabbage can be a star of modern art.
- Technique
- watercolor
- Material
- paper
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