Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)
Property from a Southern Collection
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)

Freight Car Dwellings

Details
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)
Freight Car Dwellings
signed and dated 'C. Burchfield 1920' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down on board
12½ x 26½ in. (31.8 x 68.6 cm.)
Provenance
Larry Fleischman, New York.
Dr. Irving Levitt, Detroit, Michigan.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
James and Margaret Smith, Louisville, Kentucky, acquired from the above, 1967.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 92, no. 592, illustrated.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, The James and Margaret Smith Collection, exhibition catalogue, Louisville, Kentucky, 1971, no. 20, illustrated.
Eastern Kentucky University, Centennial Exhibition: A Century of American Painting, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, Kentucky, 1974, pp. 6, 8, 19, illustrated.
J.H. Baur, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967, Newark, Delaware, 1982, pp. 104, 106, fig. 77, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Kevorkian Gallery, Drawings in Watercolor by Charles Burchfield, February 1920.
Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, The James and Margaret Smith Collection, March 2-28, 1971, no. 20.
Richmond, Kentucky, The Fred P. Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Centennial Exhibition: A Century of American Paintings, January 13-February 8, 1974, no. 12.

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