![Charles Demuth - Love, Love, Love, Homage to Gertrude Stein [1928]](http://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3828/18981467460_7d02074329_o.jpg)
Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) was one of the first American artists to come into contact with the novelties of the early twentieth-century European avant-garde. He made several trips to Europe, where he became acquainted firsthand with the new trends in art and frequented the artists belonging to the circle of Alfred Stieglitz.
Demuth first studied at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia in 1901 and continued from 1905 to 1911 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where William Merrit Chase was among his teachers. He completed his studies with various trips to Europe (in 1907–8, 1912–14 and 1921), during which he attended different Paris academies and came into contact with Gertrude and Leo Stein, Jo Davidson and Ezra Pound. He also met Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, at whose gallery, An American Place, he exhibited his work regularly from 1924 onwards. In 1916–17 he travelled to Bermuda with Marsden Hartley and Albert Gleizes, who introduced him to Cubism.
[Museo Thyseen-Bornemisza, Madrid - Oil on panel, 51 x 53 cm]