I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard (Upson board), 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm), Paintings, Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Demuth completed eight abstract portraits between 1924 and 1929 as tributes to modern American artists, writers, and performers. Though not a physical likeness, Demuth created this portrait of his friend, the poet and physician William Carlos Williams, using imagery from Williams’s poem 'The Great Figure,' which evokes the sights and sounds of a fire engine speeding down the street
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