2013 First-Class Forever Stamp,Modern Art in America: Charles Demuth's "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold"

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U.S. #4748a
2013 46¢ Charles DeMuth
Modern Art in America
 
Issue Date: March 7, 2013
City:
New York, NY
Quantity: 1,950,000
Printed By:
Avery Dennison
Printing Method:
Photogravure
Perforations:
Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color:
multicolored
 
Charles Demuth’s painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold is one of twelve featured on the Modern Art in America: 1913-1931 stamps.
 
Regarded as one of America’s greatest watercolor artists, Charles DeMuth’s most enduring works are the oil paintings he did later in his career.
 
As a child, DeMuth (1883-1935) suffered a hip injury that left him bedridden for long periods of time. To combat the boredom, his mother gave him crayons and watercolors, and the artist was born.
 
Studying in New York City and Paris, France, DeMuth joined the avant garde (experimental) art scene. He pioneered the Precisionist style, which focused on the industrialization of America through the use of precise, sharply illustrated forms. 
 
In his travels DeMuth befriended a number of significant artists and writers, many of whom served as the inspiration for some of his works. Among them was writer William Carlos Williams, whose poem “The Great Figure” inspired DeMuth’s most famous work, The Figure 5 in Gold.
 
In his later years, DeMuth developed diabetes and his travels came to an end. Living with his mother in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he continued to paint, as she and her garden had always been great influences on his work. DeMuth left the bulk of his paintings to Georgia O’Keeffe after his death. Her strategic placement of DeMuth’s paintings in American museums has helped cement him as a major figure in American modern art.

 

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

On April 13, 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.

The history of “The Met” dates back to 1866 in Paris, France. At that time, John Jay (grandson of Chief Justice John Jay) and a group of Americans visiting Paris began talking about creating a “national institution and gallery of art” to help educate the American people.

Upon returning to the US, Jay, who was president of the Union League Club in New York, worked to gain support from civic leaders, businessmen, artists, art collectors, and philanthropists. Their efforts paid off, and on April 13, 1870, the New York Legislature granted their act of incorporation, “for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations.”

Initially, the museum consisted of three private European collections totaling 174 paintings and one Roman stone sarcophagus. These included works by Hals, Van Dyck, Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi. American businessman John Taylor Johnson also provided artwork for the museum and served as its first president.

The Met first opened to the public on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue. However, its holdings were ever expanding, and this building couldn’t house the entire collection. So in 1873, the museum was moved to the Douglas Mansion at 128 West 14th Street. That would prove to be a temporary location as well, with the museum eventually moving to 1000 Fifth Avenue.

From 1879 to 1895, The Met hosted the Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools to educate people on fine arts. In 1893, another act pertaining to the museum was passed, requiring that the collections “shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year.”

By the 1900s, the Met was considered one of the greatest art centers in the world. It soon acquired works by Auguste Renoir and was the first public museum to receive the art of Henri Matisse. The Met also went on to own five of the less than 35 known surviving paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and has the largest collection of Egyptian art outside of Cairo. Today, The Met has a collection of 2,500 European paintings and one of the most thorough collections of American paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts. It’s the largest art museum in the county and second-most visited art museum in the world.

Below you’ll find several stamps honoring artists whose work is in the Met’s collections:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to visit the Met’s website, where you can see some of their collections and discover more history.

 

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U.S. #4748a
2013 46¢ Charles DeMuth
Modern Art in America
 
Issue Date: March 7, 2013
City:
New York, NY
Quantity: 1,950,000
Printed By:
Avery Dennison
Printing Method:
Photogravure
Perforations:
Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color:
multicolored
 
Charles Demuth’s painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold is one of twelve featured on the Modern Art in America: 1913-1931 stamps.
 
Regarded as one of America’s greatest watercolor artists, Charles DeMuth’s most enduring works are the oil paintings he did later in his career.
 
As a child, DeMuth (1883-1935) suffered a hip injury that left him bedridden for long periods of time. To combat the boredom, his mother gave him crayons and watercolors, and the artist was born.
 
Studying in New York City and Paris, France, DeMuth joined the avant garde (experimental) art scene. He pioneered the Precisionist style, which focused on the industrialization of America through the use of precise, sharply illustrated forms. 
 
In his travels DeMuth befriended a number of significant artists and writers, many of whom served as the inspiration for some of his works. Among them was writer William Carlos Williams, whose poem “The Great Figure” inspired DeMuth’s most famous work, The Figure 5 in Gold.
 
In his later years, DeMuth developed diabetes and his travels came to an end. Living with his mother in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he continued to paint, as she and her garden had always been great influences on his work. DeMuth left the bulk of his paintings to Georgia O’Keeffe after his death. Her strategic placement of DeMuth’s paintings in American museums has helped cement him as a major figure in American modern art.

 

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

On April 13, 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.

The history of “The Met” dates back to 1866 in Paris, France. At that time, John Jay (grandson of Chief Justice John Jay) and a group of Americans visiting Paris began talking about creating a “national institution and gallery of art” to help educate the American people.

Upon returning to the US, Jay, who was president of the Union League Club in New York, worked to gain support from civic leaders, businessmen, artists, art collectors, and philanthropists. Their efforts paid off, and on April 13, 1870, the New York Legislature granted their act of incorporation, “for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations.”

Initially, the museum consisted of three private European collections totaling 174 paintings and one Roman stone sarcophagus. These included works by Hals, Van Dyck, Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi. American businessman John Taylor Johnson also provided artwork for the museum and served as its first president.

The Met first opened to the public on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue. However, its holdings were ever expanding, and this building couldn’t house the entire collection. So in 1873, the museum was moved to the Douglas Mansion at 128 West 14th Street. That would prove to be a temporary location as well, with the museum eventually moving to 1000 Fifth Avenue.

From 1879 to 1895, The Met hosted the Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools to educate people on fine arts. In 1893, another act pertaining to the museum was passed, requiring that the collections “shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year.”

By the 1900s, the Met was considered one of the greatest art centers in the world. It soon acquired works by Auguste Renoir and was the first public museum to receive the art of Henri Matisse. The Met also went on to own five of the less than 35 known surviving paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and has the largest collection of Egyptian art outside of Cairo. Today, The Met has a collection of 2,500 European paintings and one of the most thorough collections of American paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts. It’s the largest art museum in the county and second-most visited art museum in the world.

Below you’ll find several stamps honoring artists whose work is in the Met’s collections:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to visit the Met’s website, where you can see some of their collections and discover more history.