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Charles Ephraim Burchfield

The Star

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

1893 - 1967


The Star

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1941-48 (lower right); titled, dated 1941-1948, and inscribed Dec. 8, 1941 - day after "Pearl Harbor" (on the reverse)

watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on joined paper laid down on board

39 by 51 in.

99 by 129.5 cm.

Executed in 1941-48.


We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Mr. and Mrs. George J. Perutz, Dallas (acquired by 1970)

Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Harry Spiro, New York

The Spiro Family Collection

Debra Force Fine Art Inc., New York

Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 2011)

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 44, 7 December 1941, p. 22

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 44, 8 December 1941, pp. 22-23

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 44, 9 December 1941, p. 23

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 44, 10-30 December 1941, p. 23

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 49, 3 December 1947, pp. 3-4

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 49, 17-18 December 1947, pp. 8-9

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 49, 23 December 1947, p. 11

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 54, 4 September 1952, p. 36

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 54, 5 September 1952, p. 37

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 54, 6 September 1952, p. 37

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 59, 22 September 1959, p. 123

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York 1970, no. 1043, p. 228, p.232, illustrated

J. Benjamin Townsend, ed., Charles Burchfield’s Journals: The Poetry of Place, Albany, New York 1993, fig.114, pp. 513-514, illustrated

Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Fifteenth Biennial International Water Color Exhibition, 1949, no. 129, n.p., illustrated

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Painting in the United States, 1949, 1949, no. 48, pl. 28, illustrated

Milwaukee Art Center, American Paintings 1760-1960: A Selection of 125 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, 1960, p. 92, illustrated

Clinton, New York, Hamilton College, Edward W. Root Art Center, Paintings by Charles Burchfield, 1962, no. 28

Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893-1967, 1970, no. 226

Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State Art Center, Listening to the Trees: Burchfield Masterworks from the Spiro Collection, 2003, p. 15, illustrated

New York, Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., Watercolors from a Private Collection, 2011, illustrated in color (in the brochure)

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