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Detail of The Figure Five in Gold by Charles Demuth in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
1928
Object Details
Title: I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Artist: Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard (Upson board)
Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number: 49.59.1
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. The intersecting lines, repeated "5," round forms of the numbers, lights, street lamp, and blaring sirens of the red fire engine together infuse the painting with a vibrant, urban energy. Demuth derived the title from the poem, which reads:
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488315
1928
Object Details
Title: I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Artist: Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard (Upson board)
Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number: 49.59.1
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. The intersecting lines, repeated "5," round forms of the numbers, lights, street lamp, and blaring sirens of the red fire engine together infuse the painting with a vibrant, urban energy. Demuth derived the title from the poem, which reads:
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488315
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