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Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)
January 1917
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967)
Drawings
Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree), January 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Watercolor, gouache, blue and orange crayons, and black wash on wove paper; sheet: 36.3 x 45.8 cm (14 5/16 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous gift in memory of Henry G. Keller 1954.571 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation In this drawing, the gray and brown tones of a row of houses are interrupted by the bright green and yellow of a discarded Christmas tree. The work was created in the same year as Church Bells Ringing, where a Christmas tree visible through a window was meant to contrast the work’s foreboding mood. This earlier image similarly suggests Burchfield’s passion for his favorite holiday, which he saw as a symbol of goodness. Christmas trees recurred throughout Burchfield's work around this time.
- Maker/Artist
- Burchfield, Charles Ephraim
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor, gouache, blue and orange crayons, and black wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36.3 x 45.8 cm (14 5/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1954.571
- Credit Line
- Anonymous gift in memory of Henry G. Keller
- Exhibitions
- The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints, Fine Arts Exhibition, Water Colors from the Museum Collection, American Water Colors from the Museum Collection, Cleveland Watercolors and Enamels, Charles Burchfield, Charles Burchfield Exhibition, Japanese Artists Who Studied in the U.S.A., Cleveland Traditions: Enamels and Watercolors from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920, <em>8th Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art (1930).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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