Two Sailors - Charles Demuth Art Print

Fine Art Prints

Forget cheap reproductions and printable posters. Only the best will do. Velvety matte fine art paper (warm white, archival-grade, 200gsm) with bold, vibrant, non-toxic pigment inks. 

High-definition print lab techniques give you sharper details, deeper saturation and true-to-life tones.

The matte surface keeps glare down and archival-grade materials mean the colors you fall for stay vivid for decades.

Framed Fine Art Prints

Your print arrives framed and ready to hang, so it goes straight from the box to your wall.

Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural.

Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine, finished with ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

Float Framed Canvas Prints

Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision. Its natural white surface catches light and color with striking clarity.

A precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.

Your choice of a black, white or natural frame: all made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.

Giclée Printing

Charles Demuth's Two Sailors stages its pair of U.S. Navy dress-blue figures close on the paper, ochre ground glowing beneath layered indigo wash of watercolor and graphite. One sailor turns his head toward the other, chin dropped, and the look that passes between them is unmistakably charged, hunger dressed up as camaraderie. Flat caps tilt at matching angles, black neckerchiefs knot the same silhouette twice, cheeks flushed rust-pink with a heat that has nothing to do with weather.

Painted around 1930 during Demuth's private Provincetown years, the sheet belongs to a cache of homoerotic watercolors he kept from public exhibition, circulated instead among friends inside the Stieglitz circle who read the desire in it plainly. This was cruising rendered in pigment, two uniformed men sizing each other up in a doorway. Their visible want erect and undeniable. Drawn into a scene that Demuth allowed only his closest circle to see fully finished in paint.