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DemuthFigure5inGold

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Image ID :	Figure5inGold
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Image Creator :	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Rights Owner :	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image Source :	MMA website
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Image ID :	clp123FigureFiveinGold
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Rights Owner :	Prentice Hall/Abrams (publisher)
Image Source :	H. W. Janson: History of Art (2nd Edition 1977), colorplate 132
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Work ID :	Figure5inGold
Title :	The Figure 5 in Gold
Creator/Agent :	Demuth, Charles [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	1928
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Location/Museum :	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) [LOC]
Other Identifier :	49.59.1
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Work Type :	Painting
Measurements :	90.2 x 76.2 cm
Material :	oil on cardboard
Technique :	easel paintings [AAT]
Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Precisionist [AAT] American [AAT]
Cultural Context :	American
Subject :	portraits [AAT] poems [AAT]
Relation :	One of a series of eight abstract portraits of friends, inspired by Gertrude Stein's word-portraits painted between 1924 and 1929
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Keywords :	text, textism, literature, symbol, firetruck, urban, poet, author, inspiration
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Notes :	This painting pays homage to a poem by William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure."