#demuth gardens

[demuthgardens]

Arbor with trained Espaliered apple trees. The trunks grow around the oval on either side of the gate.

[nicole-alexandria]

“Healing is layers. Healing is time. Healing is excruciating. Once you think it's done, it's not.”

—Mary DeMuth

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📷: Nicole Alexandria

[kafkasapartment]

From the Garden of the Château, 1921. Charles Demuth,1883–1935. Oil on canvas

[geoffreymoorere]

3 Local Favorites Birdwatching Spots Around Palm Springs

Birdwatching or "birding" is an inexpensive hobby you can take up anywhere and anytime. And to start, you only need three things: a bird guide, binoculars, and a birding destination. Grab your binoculars and get ready for a day of birding excursions in the best birdwatching spots around Palm Springs. Take advantage of the top three birdwatching spots around Palm Springs to guarantee a spectacular birdwatching adventure. Top 3 Go-to Birdwatching Spots Around Palm Springs Prescott Preserve 1801 E Sunny Dunes Rd - (760) 385-8255 Start your day surrounded by nature and wildlife in the Prescott Preserve. It's still under restoration and will include an expansive butterfly garden and habitats for mammals, birds, bees, and more. Native plants and trees will occupy the preserve along with designated areas for birdwatching, biking, or walking. Locals boast of the different species of birds they found, namely Vermilion Flycatcher, Egyptian Goose, Green Heron, and more. Prescott Preserve is a real bird lover's paradise and a fantastic place for birdwatchers to catch the most mesmerizing bird species. Demuth Park 4200 E Mesquite Ave - (760) 320-6430 Demuth Park is bringing out all the birds in the yard, with approximately 25 species to watch and observe. The park's lush greenery and waters provide the perfect environment for our feathered friends. Meanwhile, the paved walkway gives visitors ample space to observe and take pictures of the birds in their natural habitat. Enjoy your morning walk basking in the sunshine or admire the breathtaking view of the nearby mountains. Demuth Park is one of the best spots for birdwatchers because of its accessibility to the various species of birds. You can catch all sorts, from the Mourning Dove and Eurasian Collared-Dove to Costa's Hummingbird and Great Blue Heron. There's also a pond serving as a home to several water birds, like the Canada Goose, American Coot, etc. You can also stand by the bird feeder station, which serves as an attraction for the birds. Take unique photographs and document your birding experience in one of the best birdwatching spots around Palm Springs. Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (888) 515-8726 Level up your birdwatching experience and ride on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway while scouting for mountain and local birds. The ride provides an exhilarating experience for visitors as they ascend to Mt. San Jacinto State Park. It gives a scenic view of the mountain ranges and is also one of the top birding spots. The mountain station's wide viewing area gives you a unique view of the wilderness. Home to several bird species like Mountain Chickadee, Western Bluebird, Steller's Jay, Violet-green Swallow, and so much more. A bird viewing guide is also available in the station, which is great for helping out first-time birdwatchers identify the bird species they encounter. Overall, Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is an excellent spot for birdwatching, suitable for beginners and seasoned birders alike. Geoffrey Moore is Your Palm Springs Area Real Estate Expert Would you like to see more of GeoffreyMoore.com? Please click here for our blog page. Please click here for our "About Us" page to learn more about my team. Thanks for visiting Originally published here: https://www.geoffreymoore.com/blog/3-local-favorites-birdwatching-spots-around-palm-springs.html

[wdcgardener]

Come with me through this narrow passageway into a little urban garden I stumbled on in Lancaster, PA. The @demuthfoundation was a wonderful discovery on my quick exploration of this historic town. Gardens like this are exactly what we hope to inspire in our new book, The Urban Garden, by @cottageincourt and myself. #gardendc #2022ppa #demuthmuseum #urbangarden #citygardens #urbangardening (at The Demuth Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgwk2XOuuLW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[focusonthegoodnews]

Five baby river otters born at SC’s Brookgreen Gardens zoo

Five baby river otters born at SC’s Brookgreen Gardens zoo

Good News Notes: “Remember Egerton, the adorable baby penguin that hatched at Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach in 2020? He’s got competition, big competition. Five, just as cute (dare we say cuter), baby river otters were born last week during the winter storm at Brookgreen Gardens’ Lowcountry Zoo in Georgetown. On Tuesday, the zoo’s veterinarian checked on them, and the otter pups are all…

[sartle-blog]

Staff Picks: Our Favorite Art History Jigsaw Puzzles

As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no wonder that the staff of an art history website loves doing jigsaw puzzles! Not only are puzzles fabulous tools for sharpening your visual acuity skills, but they also make a wonderful way to relax indoors on days when it’s too hot or too cold to be outside.

Here are some of the Sartle team’s favorite jigsaw puzzles for art history lovers that can keep you occupied all year round.

  We hope you find these products as delightful as we do. Just an FYI: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning that at no additional cost to you, by clicking through and making a purchase, you will also be contributing to the growth of Sartle.

  1. Children’s Games by Pieter Bruegel 2000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Few works of art reward close looking as much as Pieter Brueghel the Elder's paintings. With his tiny (and often humorous) details, there’s so much to enjoy in Bruegel’s worlds brimming with figures and activity. In this jigsaw featuring his 1560 painting Children’s Games, you’ll discover all those details anew! And at 2000 pieces, you’ll be kept busy for a looong time. - Jeannette    

Find it on amazon here.

  2. I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

I may just have a big soft spot in my heart for Charles Demuth's precisionist paintings, but this 1000-piece puzzle featuring I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold  from the Met is just stunning! With those gorgeous intersecting planes of pure color, it provides just the right amount of challenge while still being interesting. - Jeannette

Find it at the Met store here.

  3. Viva la Vida Frida Kahlo 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzle

This adorable 1000-piece Frida Kahlo-themed puzzle comes in the dreamiest shades of pink and purple, but what I like most about it is all the little details about her life in the vignettes in the background. There are references to everything from her clothes and medical corsets, to her pets and travels, and specific paintings featuring her and Diego. The fact that this puzzle is made by a woman-owned business is just the icing on the cake! - Jeannette

Find it on amazon here.

  4. Nighthawks by Edward Hopper 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Most people know the image of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, but putting it back together via this high-quality puzzle truly allows you to appreciate the subtle details of this atmospheric painting, like faint gradations of colors and brushstrokes, which might go unnoticed on a laptop screen. Difficulty-wise, there's enough recognizable figures to guide the puzzler, but enough flat swathes with fewer elements to keep it challenging. - Angelica

Find it on amazon here.

  5. Bridge and Waterlilies by Monet 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzle

I love the concept of an Impressionist puzzle, like this one of Claude Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies from the Met. The puzzle format is perfect for Monet’s Impressionist painting technique, where a melange of smaller, separate brushstrokes and colors come together as a whole to form an idyllic scene. And what better daydream for when you're stuck inside than strolling past the water lilies in his famous garden at Giverny? - Angelica

Find it at the Met store here.

  6. Convergence by Jackson Pollock 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzle

When it comes to puzzles, I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment...but this whopper of a Jackson Pollock drip painting is positively daunting. Pollock's signature style of splashing overlapping lines of paint to create a tangled web means that you won't be able to strategize by color-coding the pieces. It's got a 5-star rating from over 100 other puzzle masochists, so join their ranks if you dare! - Angelica

Find it on amazon here.

  7. Starry Night Petals 500-Piece Puzzle

Call me basic, but I love plants and Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, and this puzzle makes my heart happy by combining both of those things. This particular puzzle makes assembling simple for the whole family as it’s easy to sort pieces by color and plant type. And in my family, the fewer reasons for arguing the better! - Lauren

Find it on amazon here.

  8. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

In early 2020, my husband and I were planning a trip to Italy with a solid two days to explore Vatican City when the pandemic hit. The Sistine Chapel is so big and this puzzle is, respectively, so small, that you’re going to need a magnifying glass to see the necessary details to put it together. Though we will likely go to Italy soon (fingers crossed!), inspecting tiny pieces of Michelangelo’s masterpiece will have to do for now. - Lauren

Find it on amazon here.

  9. The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai 500-piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Aside from the Mona Lisa, I would say that Hokusai’s Under the Great Wave at Kanagawa is one of the most recognizable pieces of art of all time. It has been copied and parodied the world over appearing on mouse pads and book bags everywhere. The little fingers of the wave will be a pain to sort through, but oh so satisfying. - Lauren

Find it at the Met store here.

  10. The Eclipse by Alma Thomas 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

As a lover of all things approved by the Obamas, Alma Thomas was quickly put on my radar when they added her work, Resurrection, to the White House Collection in 2015. Her colorful, abstract paintings were made for lovers of difficult puzzles. The color-blocked circles might make this type of puzzle seem easy, but with little shading, that orange piece could go anywhere. This puzzle will give you days worth of frustration, if you’re into that. - Lauren

Find it on amazon here.

  Wishing you many moments of the pure satisfaction and inner ~piece~ only a puzzle can provide. 

By: Jeannette Sturman

[hamsters-in-cups]

And as we look back on this part year of quarantine (as I started to do in my previous post), I am reminded of a very DIFFERENT type of cup that some hamsters were in last year due to the quarantine: An elimination-style championship cup for runners, held very unofficially (indeed, not even held in reality) in Italy last April, and documented by blogger Rodolfo Lollini.

Although the hamsters involved were merely representations of anonymous humans who themselves were most likely invented, they were yet hamsters, and their presence in a cup was a direct result of the Covid-Quarantine, so I am including them here on this blog as part of a memorial to those highly-uncertain times, which continue even now that a vaccine has been developed.

To truly show the mentality of those times it is important to read the article. The above image shows only the first paragraph of text from the blog article, and shows it as it was originally written: in Italian. If anyone reading this post speaks Italian they can access the other 3 paragraphs of the article in their original form at https://www.podisti.net/index.php/cronache/item/6085-criceto-cup-antonio-elimina-max.html For the rest of my readers, I have provided below what Google Translate believes the entire 4-paragraph article says in English:

Hamster Cup: Antonio eliminates Max

In recent days in Cornaredo (MI), one of the direct elimination running matches valid for the one hundred and twenty-eighth finals of the Hamster Cup, better known as the Hamster Cup, was held. Trophy named after the animals that currently most resemble the poor runners. People who now run only in the backyard or at most in the condominium garden, no longer daring to put their foot outside the front door.

Dry and rigorously remote challenge, in which competitors must follow strict rules. The first is anonymity. There is no rush to have the name and surname published, but only for the desire to move and compete. The second concerns the possible charity: those who want to do it alone, without putting up posters. The third is related to the criteria that allow you to pass the turn. Exquisitely artistic. Linked to the trajectories that are drawn by the GPS signal on the map.

The confrontation involved Max and Antonio. Let's start with the first one, on the left. The motion highlights a frantic movement in the best Spatialist Tradition. It was from the time of the founder Lucio Fontana that we did not see an intensity of stretch close to total confusion and that clearly reveals the urgent need to run freely outdoors, along endless straights. Beautiful also the representation of Antonio who recalls, albeit with a very personal connotation, Precisionism. Here too the founder of the movement, Charles Demuth, would have appreciated. The effort to recall the ring of an athletic track in the garden, remembering the good times in which he could freely run around, was successful.

The monochrome judge who had to decide the winner, or myself, found himself in great difficulty, as both deserved the passage of the round. In fact it was an anticipated final and keeping in mind Antonio's susceptibility, for the quiet life I decided to win him who qualifies for the sixty-fourth of the final. The Hamster Cup will end at midnight on May 3rd. Then with phase two and following, we all hope to put these claustrophobic races in the attic and forgive us if we wanted to joke around a bit tonight.

[interest-exhibit]

Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935)

From the Garden of the Château Oil On Canvas (25 in. x 20 in.) 1921 (Reworked 1925)

[shhhselah]

Happily Ever After....

Saturday, December 15, 2018

2:32pm

Guess what?

I was crying.

Yep. Legit like seven minutes ago. 

A good ole snot cry too. And you know what else? I am mad I’m not still crying. 

I’m serious. I feel some type of way. Between the time I blew my nose and God told me to grab my computer, I started sobering up a little bit. And chiiilldd, by the time I actually got my computer on and it loaded and I got Tumblr up, I was dry as the Sahara. Tuh.

My mama used to call me a cry baby. (She probably still does to be honest). But I can truthfully admit that I love crying. Now, do I love pain inspired tears? Absolutely not. I hate pain, abhor it. Specifically emotional pain. It does something deeply disturbing to me. So yeah, no. Meh don’t like pain. (I have friends that are Jamaican/Caribbean and without their knowing, I’ve taken to their accents.)

However, I do love a releasing cry. A cry that comes from the depths of your soul and just pours out everything. I adore that feeling. And you know, the Word says that “God is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18  

Well, today, God caught all of my brokenheartedness (I didn’t realize that wasn’t a word until Google told me just now) and my crushed spirit.

Lemme lay it out for you simply, and that will give context to everything else: I am a lover and child of God, who hates that she needs Him.

Point. Blank. Period.

I simply do not want to need God. I don’t. I want to love and serve and testify of Him simply because He’s so loving, just, perfect, kind, awesome, poetic, wondrous and so many other adjectives that both do and don’t exist. But.....I don’t want to need Him. Do you know why? 

It comes from one major point that creates other little subcategories: a desire for autonomy. The thing is, in His original design before sin fell (see Genesis 2-3) we were meant to have autonomy, but were never meant to be all of God and separate/without need of Him. Look at Genesis 2, in verses 1-2 (look at Genesis 1 as well) it says that God created the heavens and the earth. Chapter 2 verse 5 says there was no man to work the ground- to farm it so that plants of all kinds could spring up. And at verse 7 it says that God formed man from the ground and breathed life into his nostrils. Finally, see verses 8-9, which tells us that God made a garden with all sorts of plants and trees for Adam to tend to (Ch. 2 v. 15) and eat from (Ch. 2 v. 9). 

Now stay with me here, I’m coming to a point, I promise. Verses 18 and 21 discuss how God deemed that it was not good for man to be alone, but that he needed community-family- an equal. Because God alone was not truly Adam’s equal- though we were made in His image and thereby created to do a multitude of the things we’d gawk at and call “miracles” today. Though this is true, we were not equals with God, because we weren’t sovereign, we weren’t eternal in the way that we existed before there was ever time and a “beginning” (see Genesis 1:1). We weren’t all powerful and all knowing. So God made Adam an equal because before man did, God knew what we needed, what we lacked, what we’d crave, what our desires and personalities would be. God gave the land for Adam to tend to (Ch. 2 v. 15) and sent him all the animals He (God) had made for him (Adam) to name (Ch. 2 v. 19-20). So yes, God gave man autonomy, but not separation from Him. 

In the self-government and rulership/dominion over the world He had created and placed us in, it was never God’s intention for us to be separated from His Spirit, from His being. As our Creator and loving Father, as God of all things, we were never meant to not need His love, His light, His wisdom, His creativity, His fellowship, His perfection, His mastery. He made us rulers over earth, but not sovereign-not rulers and masters over all the universe. There was a tree of the knowledge of good and evil that we were never meant to touch (Ch. 2 v. 16-17). And yet, we did (Ch. 3 v. 1-6). And God said in Genesis 3:22-24, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.”

Do you know why man could no longer stay in the garden with God after he touched the tree he was commanded not to touch? Well, there are a number of reasons. One being, sin entered into man, who was made in the image of God, connected to God in spirit and spiritual/genetic makeup. God is perfect, He can’t be connected to sin, it’s impossible. His existence obliterates it. So, in Ch. 2 v. 5, God says that if we eat from the tree, we will die. 

Well, He didn’t mean a physical death, He meant a spiritual one. 

Selah. Think about it. A baby in the womb is connected to its mother’s life through the umbilical cord. If the umbilical cord is cut, the baby dies because it has no Source. It can’t get the nutrients of life it needs to survive. In being cut off, the baby dies. In the same way, sin severed our spiritual umbilical cord, killing our connection to God, putting our spirits to death. Physically, we were alive, but spiritually, we were gone. And that separation caused the process that we now put in a well known saying, “From the moment you are born, you begin to die.” Because now our bodies were susceptible to all kinds of sicknesses, ailments and toxic, unhealthy things that came with sin. Sin is a bottle of everything bad and evil and deadly. Imagine that the action of eating from that tree, was what pushed that bottle over, and like Pandora’s box, everything was released, never to be put back in. 

That is where we are. So, yes. God couldn’t be with us because He obliterates sin. But additionally, as I’ve said before, God is all knowing and all powerful and perfect and eternal and all those things, right? God created us. So He’s far more powerful than us. He existed before us, so He’s been around the block a couple times. He knows everything because He created everything there is to know. So do you know what that means? He’s a perfect Judge. A perfect Ruler. Adam and Eve would have only known how to judge correctly because they were made in the likeness/image of God, who Himself was a perfect Judge. But now the difference, is that they were tainted by sin and also, not sovereign, all-knowing or pre-existent of time.

So You (God), have these two beings You created, that suddenly know, like You, what the difference between good and evil is. So that means....You’ll have three beings trying to be judge and ruler of all creation, even though only one of you is actually fit for the role. 

Now this is where the serpent got in on Eve. He told her in Genesis 3:4-5, “Surely you will not die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 

He flamed her curiosity. He (the serpent, who is the devil) opened the gate for something that destroyed himself ages before this moment- pride, the ego. And we know how deadly that ego is. Chiiilllddd, it’s what has me not wanting to need God to this very day. Imma get back to that, promise. This understanding of Scripture is necessary to my point.

So, the devil told Eve that she’d be like God. Now, I looked up the root translations of “like.” They are, kemo/kamo and demuth, which both mean, “likeness, similitude, resembling, alike.” Note, in a basic example, how two people-like twins for instance- can be alike, but not the same. Here is the overarching header people, We. Will. Never. Be. God. Period. 

So, even with a knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve would still lack the sovereignty to ever be on the same level as God. And in addition to that, they came upon that knowledge illegally. The law of the land, was to never touch and eat from the tree, and yet, they broke the Law of the Judge and illegally, unjustly took that information and gained that wisdom. What they didn’t know, is that their illegal confiscation was, in and of itself, a hindrance from them ever having the perfect understanding that came with the very knowledge they stole. Because sin now skewed their judgement, discernment, understanding and wisdom in a way that God’s was not and never would be skewed.

So, yes, we were never, in the original design, meant to be separate from God. Thankfully though, through Jesus Christ, He bridged that gap and the umbilical cord has been reconnected with His Spirit.

So, back to my point of wanting to be autonomous. Through Christ, we now have His Spirit dwelling in us, encouraging us, empowering us, leading us into all Truth, knowledge, understanding and wisdom of who God is and what His will for us individually and collectively is (which is why church is necessary, but that’ll be another post).  

At one point, we as humans were rulers of earth with God as our Head, Judge, Father and delighted Overseer. He just doted over us (and still does.) So, we ruled, and there was no issues because sin hadn’t tainted anything or anyone. But once sin entered, though we still rule in the world, it is now satan who rules spiritually over the earth just as God once did. Everything begins in the realm of the spirit, (I know, this is getting weird, right?) It’s true though. Look at the saying, “Hurt people, hurt people,” what does this mean? It means, that those who are emotionally and mentally hurt will lash out and create that pain in someone else’s life. It’s the same way with the spiritual versus the natural. The evil or good that is planted, spoken, done, birthed, created, or conjured in the spiritual realm, will pour over into the natural realm. “What goes arond, comes around,” right? The Biblical equivalent to that is that what you sow, you shall reap- what you plant, is what you harvest, essentially.

So, satan became the legal ruler of this realm because of our illegal transgression in the spiritual world way back when- which was breaking divine order and law, by disobeying the sovereign Ruler. So now, we live in a world where our judgement is skewed by evil, by someone who has workers (demons and spirits) that plant and promote and influence evil in others like a wicked social media campaign. *Insert Wicked by Future here*

So, why do I not want to need God? Because I desire to be perfect. I want my fairy tale Garden of Eden. I want life before sin. I want to fast forward past struggle and pain and hurt and grief and only live the good stuff. I want to be perfect so I can live a perfect life and be perfect to the standard and opinion of every skewed judgement here on this earth. I want to fit into every mold so I can just coast through life without a problem. 

In a moment of transparency, I want this so bad that I created a world in my mind where I have it. A world where I pray because I love God, and I preach and teach about Him because I want others to know the love of His presence. But ultimately, it is a world of perfection where I do not need Him. Where I don’t even want to need Him. Because let’s be clear, I don’t want to need God. Needing Him and wanting to need Him is a confession that I don’t have what it takes to achieve all of mine and the world’s skewed standards. 

So yeah. I promised vulnerability, and this is it. It may seem crazy that someone who has a whole blog dedicated to God would say that she doesn’t even want to need Him. But the truth is, most of us don’t want to need God on some degree. That’s why we don’t always pray and consult Him. It’s why we ask Him to just get us in the door so we can do the rest. It’s why we beg to be able to know what’s next so we can get ourselves there on our own terms. It’s why we go to Him and tell Him what we want so He can get skippy, snap His fingers and appease our desires and judgement. It’s why we don’t think we need a church and other people’s help. It’s why we don’t read the Bible. We don’t desire to need Him or think we need Him.

But.........have you ever thanked God for not giving you what you wanted or thought you needed? 

Yeah?

Me too. PLENTY of times. And you know what those are? Clear signs that we need Him, and more so than we’d care to admit. 

Out of a constant feeling of inadequacy, I desire to just have complete control of my life. And by complete control, I mean being knowledgeable, wise, talented, pretty, fashionable, experienced, strong, tough, bold, confident, secure, rich, faith-filled, believing, trusting, and generally just perfect enough to have control over each and every sector of my life, to the point that everything runs without a hitch. I never want to lack anything because I’ve always felt like I lacked so much according to the rules and standards and parameters of this fallen world.

I want for once, to not have to feel like I need anything. And again, needing God is an admittance to the fact that I still lack things I wish I had. 

It’s something I’m working on. It’s something I knew and confessed months ago. But today, I finally released it to God. I finally let Him in without just grazing over it. And from here, healing comes. It will be a process, something I also really hate because it’s another indicator that I lack, and therefore, have to work and wait for something that I desire to already immediately have. Regardless though, it will be a process of seeing all the beautiful ways I need Him. And I do mean beautiful. There is beauty in vulnerability with the Lord. I’m just really learning to let it all go and not try to be the Kelah I want to be, or the Kelah the world wants me to be, or the Kelah others have projected on me.

I’m working on simply being who God painted and spoke so many centuries ago. Flaws, weaknesses and yes, inadequacies and all. Autonomy would be great in a perfect world, but this world is far from it. And how can I preach a genuine need for the Lord when I myself am trying to run from it in my own relationship with Him?

This is the start to a beautiful journey, and I’m honestly, truly glad to be with you guys on it.

With love, I hope you can  Selah on your own ways that you’ve attempted to distance yourself from God, and, how even the dreaded parts of a fairy tale still amount to the Happily Ever After...

We all want our Prince Charming to swoop in and save the day. I invite you, alongside me, to let this walk with God be the romance you never saw coming. Let’s let Him sweep us off our feet.

Selah indeed.

[demuthgardens]

This year I’m putting most of the annuals in containers. Rabbits, slugs, and snails aren’t very happy, but the annuals stand a better chance of surviving. If they need more sun, I can move them around. In case of a late frost, I can move them into the garage. Each pot is filled with 2-3 varieties of plants. Plus a time release fertilizer.

[melodramaticgreenlight]

1: Charles Demuth - From the Garden of the Chateau --- 2: Edward Hopper -  Portrait of Orleans --- 3: Edward Hopper - Night Shadows

[zazamatic]

The artists who came to be known as the Precisionists never formally organized themselves as a group or issued a manifesto; rather, they were associated through their common style and subjects. Around 1920, a number of artists in the United States began experimenting with a highly controlled approach to technique and form. They consistently reduced their compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, and smooth handling of surfaces. 

“East River From the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel,” 1928 - Georgia O’Keeffe

“From the Garden of the Chateau,” Charles Demuth 

“Machinery,” Charles Demuth

“American Landscape,” Charles Sheeler

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/precisionist-painters/

https://www.artsy.net/artist/charles-demuth

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prec/hd_prec.htm

http://diaryofamadinvalid.blogspot.com/2017/08/precisionist-art.html

[nicsays]

Oxford. Popped into Oxford today to head to the Ashmolean for their exhibition America's Cool Modernism, O'Keeffe to Hopper. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the Hopper paintings but was enchanted by his etchings which I had never seen before. There were some beautiful yet somehow haunting lithographs by Grant Wood (he of the famous American gothic) and I loved the 4 works by Charles Demuth. I must research him further. After a stop at J&G's local garden centre for a stock up on lobelia we headed home. Such a lovely weekend.

[themodernartists]

Charles Demuth (1883-1935), From the Garden of the Château, 1925 (reworked 1925). Oil on canvas.

[veganfeast]

Malfatti by Demuths Cookery School Via Flickr: Cherry Tomato Sauce, Wild Garlic Pesto, Garden Salad with Asparagus and Almonds