Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Brooding Bird and New Life are among works about life from the perspective of a bird that Burchfield painted in 1919 after returning from service in the U.S. Army. Several years later, he destroyed them because a dealer thought they departed too far from his earlier work. Regretting his actions after a span of time, he recreated the images from memory in 1963.