Editing Charles Demuth (section)

==Early life==
Charles Demuth was born on 8 November 1883 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1889, when Demuth was 6 years old, his family moved to an 18th-century house at 120 East King Street. In the colonial period, the house had been a tavern. Demuth's Tobacco Shop, owned and run by his family since 1770, was next door. Demuth lived at the King Street house with his mother, Augusta for the rest of his life. He maintained a small studio on the second floor.

Throughout his career, Demuth remained deeply attached to Lancaster. The city's modest commercial and civic architecture was the subject of hundreds of his watercolors and paintings. His depictions of warehouses, factories and row houses imbue these ordinary structures (sometimes ironically) with a grandeur and glamor normally associated with cathedrals, palaces and temples. For example, his image of two Lancaster grain silos, titled ''[[My Egypt]]'' (1927), invites the viewer to compare the massive volumetric forms to pharaonic monuments like the pyramids. In 1907 he painted his first self-portrait in oil.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles Demuth|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/demuth-charles/|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> Demuth attended Franklin and Marshall College and later pursued graduate study in art in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles Demuth|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/demuth-charles/|access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>

Demuth either suffered an injury when he was four years old, or may have had polio or tuberculosis of the hip, leaving him with a marked [[limp]] and requiring him to use a cane. He later developed diabetes and was one of the first people in the United States to receive [[insulin]] as a treatment. Demuth pronounced his surname with emphasis upon the first syllable, earning him the nickname "Deem" among close friends.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> From 1909 onward, Demuth maintained a romantic relationship with Robert Evans Locher, an Art Deco interior decorator and stage designer.