LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor, gouache and charcoal on joined paper laid down on board

Measurements:

39.72 in. (100.90 cm.) (height) by 55.98 in. (142.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials in monogram and dated '1917-45' l.r.; dated again, inscribed with title and '(Original study made May 22, 1917/incorporated in picture)' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Frank K.M. Rehn, Inc., Charles Burchfield, January 7-21, 1946, no. 3. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Painting in the United States, 1946, October 10-December 8, 1946, illustrated. Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Charles Burchfield, His Golden Year: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils and Graphics, November 14, 1965-January 9, 1966, p. 80, no. 75, illustrated. Clinton, New York, Hamilton College, Emerson Gallery, Extending the Golden Year: Charles Burchfield Centennial, March 6-April 25, 1993, p. 70, no. 34, cover illustration. Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Buffalo, New York, Buffalo State College, Burchfield-Penney Art Center; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, March 23, 1997-January 25, 1998, p. 177, no. 54, illustrated.

Literature:

J. Gibbs, 'Burchfield Reverts Back to Early Fantasy,' Art Digest, vol. 20, January 1, 1946, p. 9. 'Less Gloomy Burchfield,' Time, January 21, 1946, p. 61. J. Gibbs, 'Carnegie surveys Current U.S. Painting,' Art Digest, vol. 21, October 15, 1946, pp. 9-10. J. O'Connor Jr., 'Painting in the United States,' Design, vol. 48, December 1946, pp. 9-11. J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 214, no. 988. M. Esterow, Art in America, vol. 58, May 1970, p. 72. J.I.H. Baur, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, p. 197. D. Butler, “Extending the Golden Year: Charles Burchfield,” American Art Review, vol. 5, no. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 112-13, illustrated.

Provenance:

Frank K.M. Rehn, Inc., New York. Private collection, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1960. By descent to the present owner.