Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)


Untitled (Landscape with Trees and Houses) dated 'April - 7 - 1917' (on the reverse)gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on board18 x 22inExecuted in 1917.
|ProvenancePrivate collection, New York.By descent to the present owner, 1999.Accompanying this lot is a research report completed by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.In a journal entry written by the artist, dated April 7th, 1917, while in Salem, Ohio, the artist describes the subject depicted in the present work:"After a blizzard a cold blue & white day, - pale sun at late afternoon - The moon came up over the chilly April hills & found my mind sodden with neglect - but I saw it finally (star doodle) reflected in a leaf soggy pond in the woods and heard the creek in Pinehollow behind me."(C.E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 29B, pp. 26-27)