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Charles Burchfield"The White Cloud, Salem" A Classic Watercolor from his Magic Year, 1917 Modern1917
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The White Cloud, Salem, A Classic Watercolor from his Magic Year, 1917 Modern
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)
The White Cloud, Salem, 1917
21 1/2 x 17 12 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed and Dated lower right
Framed: 32 1/4H x 28 1/2W inches
The drawing was done in 1917, which is considered Burchfield’s magic year. It’s the year when he created many of his greatest works.
Provenance: Collection of the Burchfield Family
Barbara Mathes Gallery Inc
Literature: J.S.Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, p.62, no.329
BIO
Born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, Charles Burchfield became known as a town-landscape painter of middle-western America, and his paintings have had much influence on succeeding generations of artists. He has also been described as a social critic, naturalist, and transcendental visionary whose sensitivities infuse his artwork. Of his impact on American art, Matthew Baigell wrote: "Few American artists have ever responded with such passion to the landscape or have made it such a compelling repository as well as mirror of their intimate feelings." (55)
In addition to his painting, Burchfield was a teacher at the Art Institute of Buffalo from 1949 to 1952 and at the University of Buffalo from 1950 to 1952.
Burchfield's career can be divided into three phases. The first is landscapes based on childhood memories and fantasies and ended about 1918; the second from 1918 to 1943, is Social Realism including "grimy streets and rundown buildings of the eastern Ohio area", and the third phase is a return to subject matter of his childhood and the "investing them with a kind of ecstatic poetry." (Biagell 54)
Throughout his career, watercolor was his preferred medium. Knowledge of Oriental art influenced him to use simple forms.
He spent his youth in Salem, Ohio where he developed a keen interest in art and nature and was intensely aware of woodland sounds and noises. In 1912, he decided to become a painter and enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art where his most influential teacher was Henry Keller. Another major Ohio influence on his painting was William Sommer, leader of the modernist movement in the Cleveland area. He introduced Burchfield to experimental watercolor techniques and color theory, and Burchfield began attending sessions of the Kokoon Club, organized by Sommer and William Zorach to promote avant-garde art. In 1917, he developed a shorthand of abstractions of various shapes and moods, and he also began painting small houses that appeared to be haunted.
He served in World War I from 1918 to 1919, and served as sergeant in the Camouflage Corps, camouflaging artillery pieces. In 1921, he moved to Buffalo, New York where until 1929, he worked as a wallpaper designer for the M.H. Birge and Sons Wallpaper Company. From that time, living the remainder of his life in Buffalo, he devoted himself full time to fine-art painting that ranged from rather sentimental depictions to abstraction in the 1960s. In the 1920s, he moved away from what he perceived as an overactive imagination and did studies of architecture of Midwestern streets. This subject matter of the realities of the man-made world was influenced by his reading of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, and playing off those themes he reflected a debunking of the heartland sentimentality by so-called sophisticated, more worldly critics. Then in 1943, he returned to his earlier style which he explained was a "necessary diversion" from the aftermath of World War II.
Once more he began to explore the landscape of his youth, and using a less-realistic style, became almost mystical in his expressions of nature including seasonal changes, and forest sounds, which he depicted with quivering brushstrokes. "His last paintings are filled with chimerical creatures--butterflies and dragonflies from another world." (Baigell 55)
The largest single collection of his work is at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York and includes his watercolors, prints, oil paintings, and preliminary sketches for both paintings and wallpaper designs. In 1997, a major retrospective of his work was held at the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC and was organized by the Columbus Ohio Museum of Art.
- Creator:Charles Burchfield (1893 - 1967, American)
- Creation Year:1917
- Dimensions:Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1156217136692
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