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Lancaster (In the Province No. 2), by Charles Demuth, 1920.
Credit: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950.1950-134-45
Best remembered as a painter of scenes of industrial America, Charles Demuth (1883-1935)experimented with cubism and expressionism before arriving at his own modernist style. His studio on King Street in Lancaster, today's Demuth Museum, is where the artist created most of his work.