Mountain with Red House

Mountain with Red House is a watercolor landscape painting created ca. 1913 by the American artist Charles Demuth. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the New York.^[1]

Mountain with Red House
Artist	Charles Demuth
Year	c. 1913
Dimensions	24.1 cm (9.5 in) × 32.1 cm (12.6 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No.	49.70.70a, b
Identifiers	The Met object ID: 488517

Early history and creation

Charles Demuth painted this work around 1913, perhaps while he developed his craft in Paris traveled across France.^[2][3] He likely held onto this painting until he gave it to his friend Georgia O'Keeffe in 1931.^[4]

Description and interpretation

The work depicts two small houses in the foreground with a mountain range in the background. On the reverse side, there is a watercolor draft of a bridge over the Seine in Paris.^[1]