“When Abigail Baer arrived at the Demuth Foundation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania six years ago after being hired as its executive director, she discovered visitors to the historic residence and studio of the late artist Charles Demuth left without learning much about the celebrated master watercolorist. One detail about his life that largely went unmentioned was that Demuth was a gay man.
“When I started, you could come to the Demuth Museum located in the artist’s home and studio and not really learn much about him or see his work,” recalled Baer, a straight ally who had been working in development and programming at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. “We quickly began incorporating that.”
Baer and her team rethought how to make the best use of the narrow 1760 brick row house and its five rooms, which included the artist’s studio. They embarked on a renovation of the spaces that opened to the public in April..”
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