Contract with curator, 1981

Charles Demuth was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1883 and later studied art in Philadelphia. Over the course of his life, he traveled Europe and created over 900 works of art before dying in 1935 at the age of 52. Organized by Betsy Fahlman, Assistant Professor of Art History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, in collaboration with Ann B. Percy, Acting Curator of Drawings, and Christine Armstrong, Acting Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, this exhibition celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth and focused on works created in Lancaster Country or featuring Lancaster as a primary subject. The Pew Memorial Trust and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts supported the show with grant funding. After closing in Philadelphia, "Pennsylvania Modern" also traveled to The Heritage Center of Lancaster County and the Museum of Art at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.