Artist

Charles Burchfield

born Ashtabula Harbor, OH 1893-died West Seneca, NY 1967
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Charles E. Burchfield, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001324
Also known as
  • Charles E. Burchfield
  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Born
Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, United States
Died
West Seneca, New York, United States
Active in
  • Salem, Ohio, United States
  • Buffalo, New York, United States
  • Gardenville, New York, United States
Biography

Modernist painter who celebrated nature in his watercolors. During his life, he often drew inspiration from his environs, which included small-town Salem, Ohio, and urban Buffalo, N.Y.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (22 items)

Martin Lewis, Spring Night, Greenwich Village, 1930, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.152
Spring Night, Greenwich Village
Date1930
drypoint on paper
Not on view
Martin Lewis, Shadow Magic, 1939, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1968.86.1
Shadow Magic
Date1939
drypoint on paper
Not on view
Martin Lewis, Subway Steps, 1930, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1971.345
Subway Steps
Date1930
drypoint on paper
Not on view
Martin Lewis, R.F.D., 1933, drypoint and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.159
R.F.D.
Date1933
drypoint and aquatint on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

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Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection
This exhibition presents some of the most treasured paintings and sculpture from SAAM’s permanent collection, including artworks by Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker, among others.

Related Books

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Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Graphic Masters celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists’ works on paper. Exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1860s through the 1990s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Traditionally a more intimate form of expression than painting or sculpture, drawings often reveal greater spontaneity and experimentation. Even as works on paper become larger and more finished, competing in scale with easel paintings, they retain a sense of the artist’s hand, the immediacy of a thought made visible.