Demuth, Charles (1883–1935)

US painter. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Académie Julian, Paris. He painted illustrations for several writers, including Emile Zola and Henry James. His works include Circus Riders (1916) and Acrobats (1919).

He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He worked in water colours and was taught by Thomas Anshutz (1905–08). His later work was a combination of cubism and realism, as in the grain elevators of My Egypt (1927).