In the Deep Woods

Details

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
In the Deep Woods
signed and dated 'C Burchfield/1918' (lower right)--dated again 'May 26, 1918' (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
25 x 18 in. (63.5 x 45.7 cm.)

Provenance

Sale: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, War Assets Administration, 19 June 1948, lot 87.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield: 1917-1918 Period, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1939, n.p., no. 42.
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 78, no. 456.
M.L. Ausfeld, V.M. Mecklenburg, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, exhibition catalogue, Montgomery, Alabama, 1984, pp. 70, 92, no. 10, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield: 1917-1918 Period, November 20-December 16, 1939, no. 42. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art, October 4-27, 1946.
Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, January 7-March 4, 1984.

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Lot Essay

The present work has been requested for the 2012-2014 traveling exhibition, Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, organized by Mark A. White, Ph.D. and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

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