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American Modernist Charles Demuth in the City of Lights on View at the Demuth Museum

LANCASTER, PA.- The Demuth Museum’s new exhibition, “Demuth in the City of Lights,” is now on view through August 28, 2011. This exhibition brings together many of Charles Demuth’s works from his travels to Paris in the early twentieth century. American Modernist painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935) soaked up all Paris had to offer by visiting galleries, attending live performances, discussing ideas with fellow artists including Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp, and drinking up the night-life. Upon returning home to Lancaster, Pennsylvania he poured out his art work. Like other foreigners in Paris, Demuth did seek out art instruction and this exhibit features examples of Demuth’s figure drawings of live models from his classes at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie Julien. This exhibition also highlights Demuth’s pictures of the people and places he saw