Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)In the Deep Woods
May 26, 1918
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
25 x 18 inches
Image from the Burchfield Penney Archives
The present work has been requested for the 2012-2014 traveling exhibition, Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, organized by Mark A. White, Ph.D. and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Provenance
Sale: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, War Assets Administration, 19 June 1948, lot 87.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Pre-Lot Text
Property of the Owego Apalachin Central School District
Literature
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield: 1917-1918 Period, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1939, n.p., no. 42.
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 78, no. 456.
M.L. Ausfeld, V.M. Mecklenburg, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, exhibition catalogue, Montgomery, Alabama, 1984, pp. 70, 92, no. 10, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield: 1917-1918 Period, November 20-December 16, 1939, no. 42. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art, October 4-27, 1946.
Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, January 7-March 4, 1984.