CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)

The original owner of the present work, Murdock Pemberton, was The New Yorker's first art critic. Pemberton immersed himself in the New York cultural scene and was a proponent of the Stieglitz Circle artists including Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley.

A closely related work of 1915, also entitled Zinnias, is in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York.