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I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth. It has been described as influenced by Futurism and Cubism. Painted as a homage to Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams, the painting references Williams' poem "The Great Figure," which describes a fire engine speeding through the streets of New York on a rainy night. The painting's title is a phrase from the poem.
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"I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold," was inspired by his friend William Carlos Williams's poem "". Roberta Smith described the work in "The New York Times": "Demuth's famous visionary accounting of Williams, "I Saw the Figure Five in Gold", [is] a painting whose title and medallion-like arrangement of angled forms were both inspired by a verse the poet wrote after watching a fire engine streak past him on a rainy Manhattan street while waiting for Marsden Hartley, whose studio