Lot 87
  • 87

Charles Burchfield 1893-1967

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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Beginning of a Snowstorm
  • signed C. Burchfield, l.r.
  • watercolor and gouache on paper
  • 18 by 25 in.
  • (45.7 by 63.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1920.

Provenance

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (purchased from the above), 1931

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints from the Permanent Collection, January-February 1932
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints and Watercolors, May-June 1933
(probably) New York, Cosmopolitan Club, 1934
San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of American Painting, June-July 1935
Summit, New Jersey, Summit Art Association, January-February 1938
New York, Frank. K. M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield: 1917-1918 Period, November-December 1939
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Girl Scout Exhibition: American Watercolors, October-November 1941
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Exhibition of Work from the Permanent Collection, September-October 1942
Northampton, Massachusetts, The Smith College Museum of Art, American Watercolors, December 1942
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Contemporary Watercolors from the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 1945-April 1947
Riverside, Connecticut, French & Co., The Ideal Small School-Community Museum, October-November 1960
Buffalo, New York, Upton Hall Gallery, State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield: Recent Paintings;  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Early Watercolors, April-June 1963, no. 66, p. 22
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Burchfield, June-August 1980, pp. 16-17, illustrated
Summit, New Jersey, Summit Art Center, American Realism 1930s-1980s: A Comparative Perspective, March-May 1983
Clinton, New York, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Extending the Golden Year: Charles Burchfield Centennial, March-May 1993

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 580, p. 90