Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

Dandelion Field

Details

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Dandelion Field
signed and dated 'Chas Burchfield/1916' (lower left)--dated again 'May 1916' (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
[With]Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York.
(Possibly) Thomas Metcalf, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above.
(Possibly) The artist, acquired from the above.
(Possibly) [With]Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 24 June 1988, lot 183.
Private collection.
Christie's East, New York, 15 June 2000, lot 266.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

(Possibly) Museum of Modern Art, Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors 1916-1918, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1930, p. 10, no. 5 (as Drifting Dandelion Seeds).
(Possibly) J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 50, no. 187 (as Drifting Dandelion Seeds).

Exhibited

(Possibly) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors 1916-1918, April 11-26, 1930, no. 5 (as Drifting Dandelion Seeds).

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Descriptif du lot

The present work depicts a field in Salem, Ohio, where Charles Burchfield spent his childhood and early adulthood from 1898-1921. In the 1930 Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue, Burchfield poetically described Drifting Dandelion Seeds as "Winged dandelion seeds scattered obliquely across the overlapping layers of a hayfield by a fresh June wind."

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