Charles Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold JPB

1928

Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard (Upson board)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

 

The Great Figure

 

Among the rain

and lights

I saw the figure 5

in gold

on a red

firetruck

moving

tense

unheeded

to gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city.

 

~ William Carlos Williams ~

Done