Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth (1883-11-09 – 1935-10-23) was a gay American Precisionist painter. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and studied at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Quotes

 * There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.
 * Quoted in Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde by Jonathan Weinberg (Yale University Press, 1993).