Charles Ephraim Burchfield 1893 - 1967

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Sold

110,500 USD

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Description

Charles Ephraim Burchfield
A Small Town
signed Chas. Burchfield and dated 1918, l.r.; also inscribed "A Small Town" / (An imaginary composition / based on houses in Salem / and surrounding towns) / June 1918 on the reverse
watercolor and pencil on joined paper laid down on board

Provenance

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1959

Exhibited

New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield 1917-1918 Period, November-December 1939
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors, April-May 1963
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect, May-June 1964 (as Imaginary Village)
Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Charles Burchfield: His Golden Year: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils and Graphics, November 1965-January 1966

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 78, no. 446