Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Extraordinarily beautiful and imaginative, the churning red water is also ominously surreal, probably documenting the Salem waterway polluted by iron or other chemicals from the region’s industries. A vintage postcard of a far more placid view reveals that Burchfield spelled the name phonetically. (label by Nancy Weekly for Charles E. Burchfield: Water, 2014)