Those who knew him said Charles Burchfield looked like an unassuming, reticent small-town bookkeeper or accountant. In reality, Burchfield (1893‱967) was one of America most original artists and a premier Twentieth Century watercolorist. Most of Burchfield watercolors reflect fantasy interpretations of his childhood dreams and adult visions, but around 1918‱920, he applied his knowledge of European Modernist strategies and began to paint more abstractly with flattened space and arbitrary colors. The result was a series of austere architectural vignettes that reflected a skeptical native interpretation of the vernacular structures in and around small Midwestern towns †stark houses and industrial landscapes, stylized puffs of smoke, mines, railroad yards and barren trees. The evolution of this new aesthetic is documented in the first-ever exhibition on this period in the artist life, ⁃harles Burchfield, 1920: The Architecture of Painting,†on view at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y., through November 29.
Charles Burchfield. Railroad Gantry. 1920. Gouache on paper. 17 3/4 x 24 5/8" (45.2 x 67.5 cm). Given anonymously. 2.1930. Drawings and Prints
Charles Burchfield. The Interurban Line. 1920. Watercolor and pencil on paper. 14 3/4 x 20 3/4
At sundown a pale smooth cold blue – grey bank of cloud came up out of the west – it hung like there like a phantom – the houses seemed to shrink – at midnight a heavy snow is falling –Charles E. Burchfield, Vol. 33, January 15, 1920
View Freight Car Dwellings (1920) By Charles Ephraim Burchfield; watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board; board 12⅜ by 26⅜ in. 31.4 by 67 cm.; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
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Chestnut Trees by Charles Burchfield
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