I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
| I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold | |
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| Artist | Charles Demuth |
| Year | 1928 |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America |
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold,[1] is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth. It has been described as influenced by Futurism and Cubism.[2] Painted as an homage to Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams,[3] the painting references Williams' poem The Great Figure,[4] which describes a fire engine speeding through the streets of a city (possibly New York[1]) on a rainy night. The painting's title is a phrase from the poem.
The painting is used as the cover picture of the novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992).
References
- 1 2 Judith H. Dobrzynski (July 10, 2010). "Where Paint and Poetry Meet". The Wall Street Journal. News Corporation. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ↑ H. W. Janson (2004). History of Art: The Western Tradition. Prentice Hall. p. 1031. ISBN 9780131828957. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
External links
- The United States of America, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (p.127)
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