Backyards in Golden Sunlight

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Backyards in Golden Sunlight

(1946) 1966

watercolor on seamed paper mounted on board

48 x 48 inches

Private Collection, image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives

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Charles E. Burchfield

The Burchfield Penney Art Center holds the largest public collection of works by Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), as well as an archive of more than 10,000 pages of handwritten journals, 25,000 drawings, and other ephemera, including a scale re-creation of the artist’s studio.

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