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Setting Sun through the Catalpas (Late August Sunset)
August 27, 1916
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967)
Drawings
Setting Sun through the Catalpas (Late August Sunset), August 27, 1916. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Watercolor and opaque watercolor with graphite on wove paper; sheet: 50.5 x 35.3 cm (19 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1930.850 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Burchfield began to experiment actively with watercolor after returning to Salem. Early on, he worked carefully, outlining the composition completely in pencil before filling it in with watercolor. Faint graphite lines are visible throughout this depiction of the sun casting light through a star-shaped opening between flowering bushes. He later broke from this practice and worked directly with watercolor. Burchfield's notations about color placement can be seen behind the layers of watercolor in this drawing, when studied closely.
- Maker/Artist
- Burchfield, Charles Ephraim
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor and opaque watercolor with graphite on wove paper
- Medium
- watercolor, opaque, graphite, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 50.5 x 35.3 cm (19 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: C E BURCHFIELD - 1916
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1930.850
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- An Exhibition of Water Colors and Oils by Charles Burchfield., Expressionism and Related Movements, Charles Burchfield: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils 1916-1943, Charles Burchfield Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings by Charles Burchfield., Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints, Cleveland Traditions: Water Colors and Enamels from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Traditions: Enamels and Watercolors from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield., The Early Work of Charles E. Burchfield, The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, Visions Out the Window and Down the Street: A Golden Anniversary Celebration of the Art of Charles E. Burchfield at the Brauer Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920, Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 228). Cleveland Museum of Art (October 19, 2009 - February 22, 2010).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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