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CHARLES BURCHFIELD Untitled (Rainbow on Roof of House).
Watercolor on paper, 1916. 300x225 mm; 11 3/4x8 7/8 inches. Dated "6-19-1916" in pencil, verso. Ex-collection private collection; thence by descent.
Accompanying this lot is a research report completed by The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
This painting is included in the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives slide documentation of works in the artist's estate as slide number 409.
Burchfield (1893-1967) was born and raised in rural Ohio. As a shy boy he took refuge in nature and absorbed works by the popular Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and John Burroughs. Burchfield's early interest in nature never waned, and he remained first and foremost a landscape artist throughout his career. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art in 1912 and, after graduating, took a job designing wallpaper for H.M. Birge and Sons in Buffalo, New York. In 1928, Burchfield abandoned the wallpaper business to pursue fine art full time. The Montross Gallery was already exhibiting his work, but in 1929 Frank Rehn began representing the artist, a pivotal moment in his career, as Rehn made life as an artist a viable possibility for Burchfield--who was by then a father of five. Burchfield had already been exhibiting extensively since 1916, and in 1930, had the honor of The Museum of Modern Art's, New York, first one-man exhibition, with a show featuring his early watercolors.
