Details
CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
March Pools at Twilight
signed and dated 'C Burchfield/3⁄25 1917' (lower right)
watercolor and gouache on paper
21 x 17 ¾ in. (53.3 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed in 1917.
Provenance
The artist.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan.
Holly and Arthur Magill, Greenville, South Carolina, acquired from the above, 1982.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, New York.
Widing & Peck Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above, 1997.
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 April 2017, lot 158, sold by the above.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2017.
Literature
(Probably) C.E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. LXIII, June 23, 1965, pp. 34-35.
K.J. Avery, "Kennedy Galleries, New York Exhibit," Arts Magazine, vol. LVII, September 1982, p. 17.
I.S. Fort, "Charles Burchfield," Arts Magazine, vol. LVII, September 1982, p. 30.
J.P. Harrington, "The Moon, the Stars and the Artist: Astronomy in the Works of Charles E. Burchfield," The American Art Journal, vol. XXII, no. 2, 1990, p. 38, fig. 5, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Charles E. Burchfield Watercolors, March 27-April 20, 1974, n.p., no. 3, illustrated.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected American Masterworks: John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine, 1770-1979, December 4, 1979-January 5, 1980, n.p., no. 28, illustrated.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Burchfield's Seasons, 1982, n.p., no. 10, illustrated.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Charles E. Burchfield: Watercolors from 1915 to 1920, 1983, n.p., no. 25, illustrated.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The American Tradition of Realism, Part II: Paintings and Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April 5-May 7, 1983, n.p., no. 38, illustrated.
Further details
We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
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