
Lot Closed
March 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD
1893 - 1967
NOVEMBER WIND AT DUSK
signed with monogrammed initials CEB and dated 1946-59 (lower right)
watercolor, charcoal and gouache on joined paper laid down on board
35 ½ by 29 ⅝ inches
(90.2 by 75.6 cm)
We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York
The artist
[with]Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc., New York
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Nieman, Dayton, Ohio, 1960 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owners
University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, 1988-1998 (on loan)
Columbus, Ohio, Keny & Johnson Gallery, American Master Works on Paper (1880-1935), May-June 1989
Columbus, Ohio, Keny Galleries, A Century of American Watercolor Paintings (1870-1970), February-March 1998
Springfield, Ohio, Springfield Museum of Art, 1998-1999 (on loan)
Buffalo, New York, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Home Is Where One Starts From, June-September 2000
Buffalo, New York, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, November Storm, December-March 2002
Buffalo, New York, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, American Land, American Life, November 2003-February 2004
Columbus, Ohio, Keny Galleries, Charles Burchfield (American 1893-1967), February-March 2004
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 1190, p. 276
Jacqueline Hall, "Both strength, spontaneity in watercolor: Diverse styles are hallmark of American works," The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, March 8, 1998, p. 8H, illustrated