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Charles Burchfield 1893 - 1967
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Sold
137,500 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Charles Burchfield
- The Bower
- Signed Chas. Burchfield and dated 1917 (lower right); also titled and dated The Bower/Aug 5, 1917/B-261 on the reverse
- Watercolor and colored pencil on paper mounted on board
- Sight: 21 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Provenance
Estate of Flora Whitney Miller, Old Westbury, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 28, 1987, lot 324, illustrated)
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman
Exhibited
New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield, 1917-1918 Period, November-December 1939
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield—Exhibition and Catalogue by the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 1956-February 1957, no. 10
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Museum of Art, The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield, 1915-1921, December 1987-April 1988, no. 43, illustrated p. 50
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield—Exhibition and Catalogue by the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 1956-February 1957, no. 10
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Museum of Art, The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield, 1915-1921, December 1987-April 1988, no. 43, illustrated p. 50
Literature
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 351, p. 64