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CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD | The Corner Store (Corner Store in Winter)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • The Corner Store (Corner Store in Winter)
  • signed Charles Burchfield and dated Jan 23, 1918 (lower left); titled "Corner Store in Winter", and dated 1918- (on the reverse)
  • watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper mounted on board by the artist
  • 13 1/2 by 16 1/8 inches
  • (34.3 by 41 cm)

Provenance

Montross Gallery, New York
The artist
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Kevorkian Gallery, Drawings in Watercolor by Charles Burchfield, February 1920, no. 31, illustrated
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors, April-May 1963, no. 40
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Watercolors from 1915 to 1920, May-June 1983, no. 36, illustrated 
New York, DC Moore Gallery; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Buffalo, New York, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles Burchfield 1920: The Architecture of Painting, March-November 2009, pp. 20, 45, 108, illustrated

Literature

Mary Clarke-Mowbary, Drawings in Watercolor by Charles Burchfield, New York, 1920
Charles Ephraim Burchfield, "On the Middle Border," Creative Art, vol. 3, September 1928, pp. 25-32
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 409, p. 74

Condition

The sheet is slight toned overall with mat burn visible particularly across the top edge. There is one very small tear in the extreme lower right corner.
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