Lot 21
  • 21

Charles Ephraim Burchfield 1893 - 1967

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 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
  • 20 ¾ by 26 ½ in.
  • (52.7 by 67.3 cm)

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

Condition

Very good condition. Unframed: pinholes in corners, two strips of joined paper.
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