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Lancaster (In the Province No. 2), by Charles Demuth, 1920.
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Modern drawing of courthouse. Building is in the red foreground with white turret. There is a black water tower as the back ground image.

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.

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