CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

Details
CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

The Haymow, Salem

signed C. Burchfield, l.r.--watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
21¼ x 30in. (53.3 x 76.2cm.)
Provenance
Edward D. Whelan, Sr., East Orange, New Jersey
Literature
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, 1970, p. 96, no. 646

Lot Essay

RELATED LITERATURE
J. Czestochowski, "The Published Prints of Charles E. Burchfield," The American Art Journal, 8, no. 2 (November 1976), p. 101, no. 8, illus.

Executed in 1920, the scene depicted here is Sugar Tree Alley in the artist's native Salem, Ohio. This watercolor was the inspiration for the wood engraving of the same subject in reverse, executed in 1924.