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The Sun through the Trees, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Watercolor; 51.4 x 36.2 cm (20 3/16 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 804.1930 ...
While Charles Burchfield's psychedelic, layered watercolors draw inspiration from private, personal brooding, the guests at last night's opening of an exhibit of his work at the Whitney were more ...
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) is among them, ... (The Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College has the largest collection of his work.) Starting in 1929, ...
Like everyone else, Charles Burchfield couldn’t do much about the weather. But he could paint it—which he did, gloriously, imaginatively and, according to Stephen Vermette, quite accurately ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT — Arguably, watercolor was the most important medium sustained by American painters struggling with the new demands and untried possibilities of Modernism in the first half of ...
Charles Burchfield left the small town of Salem, Ohio, where he had lived most of his life after receiving a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City. The year was 1916 and ...
A spiritual dimension marks the art of Charles Burchfield. By Alicia Eler. December 13, 2018 at 7:57PM “The Evening Star,” an oil painting by Charles E. Burchfield.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Chronicles is looking back at Charles Burchfield’s Buffalo in three parts— what contemporary Buffalo thought of the ...