Demuth's floral works span his career and reveal the artist's evolving style. Earlier works such as this one are examples of Demuth working in a free-flowing manner where he tones the whole background, incorporating the flowers into a seamless field of form and color. The specific spatial orientation of a floral bouquet or garden grouping is eschewed in favor of a more abstracted, flattened field. (http://www.demuth.org/index.php?pID=66)