Bermuda Sky and Sea with Boats, ca. 1917, Watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 1/8 in. (25.4 x 35.9 cm), Drawings, Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania), In February 1917, Demuth arrived in Bermuda for a month or so, where he joined his friend, the painter Marsden Hartley, who was staying there for a longer time. In one of Hartley's letters to Stieglitz he describes the earthly paradise that Demuth was soon to see: 'I like the suggestion of the orient in the voluptuousness of vegetation about - the large red hibiscus blossoms - …and the sensuous banana trees are every where in evidence - It all suggests [sic] the gold - frankincense & myrth of the East for there is such opulence of perfume and of spicy fragrances and the people are at once gentle and kindly…' Demuth's stay in Bermuda was a great artistic success, with Hartley writing to Stieglitz: 'D
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