Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Snow Patterns, 1920, gouache on paper, 14 ½ x 31 inches, Burchfield Penney Art Center, purchased with funds donated by Carol & John Kociela, Anthony Bannon & Elizabeth Stewart, Laurie Brosnahan, Robert M. & Mary Ann Budin, Adrian F. Dedecker III & Clotilde P. Dedecker, Eugene L. Gaier, Peter J. Heffley, William J. & Linda Maggio, Carolyn Morris-Hunt & Timothy Hunt, Scott Propeack & Heidi Freedman, Zack Schneider & Vogt Family Foundation, Rachel & Scott Stenclik, Peter Vukelic, and Nancy Weekly, 2015
Charles Burchfield: The Architecture of Painting
Past
Aug 29, 2009 - Nov 29, 2009
This exhibition—which was on view at the DC Moore Gallery in New York City and the Columbus Museum of Art previously—considers the importance of a body of related paintings created by Burchfield between 1918 and 1920 that depict stark houses and views of industrial landscapes. Distinguished by their austere architecture, the works employ hallmarks of modernist pictorial strategies, such as flattened space, frontality, and reductive simplicity.
DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York, March 18-April 25, 2009; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, May 22-August 2, 2009; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New Y0rk, August 29-November 29, 2009 (Presented by LPCiminelli Inc.)
"Cones, Cubes, and Brooding Shacks: Charles Burchfield's House Pictures 1918-1920" by Michael D. Hall
"Charles Burchfield: Modern American" by Nannette V. Maciejunes and Karli R. Wurzelbacher