Editing Charles Demuth (section)

==Later years and death==
Demuth, a gay artist,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Speaking for vice : homosexuality in the art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the first American avant-garde|last=Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957-|date=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|others=Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943.|isbn=0300053614|location=New Haven|oclc=27684835}}</ref> was a regular patron at the Lafayette Baths. His sexual exploits there are the subject of watercolors, including his 1918 homoerotic self-portrait set in a [[Victorian Turkish baths|Victorian Turkish bath]].<ref name="neilmiller">{{cite book
  | last =Miller
  | first =Neil
  | title =Out of the Past, Gay and Lesbian history from 1869 to the present
  | url =https://archive.org/details/outofpastgayand00mill
  | url-access =registration
  | publisher =Vintage
  | year =1995
  | pages =[https://archive.org/details/outofpastgayand00mill/page/143 143]
  | isbn =0-09-957691-0 }}</ref>

Demuth spent most of his life in frail health. By 1920, the effects of diabetes had begun to severely drain Demuth of artistic energy. He died at his residence in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at the age 51 of complications from diabetes. He is buried at the Lancaster Cemetery.