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Charles Burchfield | |||
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1893 in Ashtabula Harbor, OH Died 1967 in West Seneca, NY |
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| Night Scene, 1919 | ||||
| watercolor
on paper 25 x 18 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust 1995.10 |
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| Part Regionalist, part modernist, Burchfield is recognized as a major American master watercolorist. Throughout his career he painted scenes he encountered every day, documenting, for example, his walk to and from work as a wallpaper designer—houses, streets, trees, churches, businesses. But his realistic subject matter is steeped with his emotional responses to his surroundings, conveying a sense of the mystical, the spiritual, even the fantastic. |