id: 109589 accession number: 1928.220 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.220 updated: 2025-02-08 23:50:38.469000 March Wind, 1926. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Watercolor; framed: 95.3 x 127.7 cm (37 1/2 x 50 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.220 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation title: March Wind title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1926 creation date earliest: 1926 creation date latest: 1926 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation --- culture: America technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967) - artist Charles Burchfield was among the most original and poetic painters of the Cleveland modernist movement. Born in Ashtabula, he moved to Salem, Ohio, following the death of his father in 1898. After graduating from high school, he attended Cleveland School of Art, studying with William Eastman, Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Frank Wilcox. In 1914 Burchfield began attending Kokoon Klub exhibitions, and in spring 1915 he went to Brandywine to meet William Sommer. Around this time Burchfild began experimenting with the brilliant colors and simplified forms of the Berlin Heights painters. He painted his first mature works in 1915, and grad ed from the Cleveland School of Art with a degree in illustration the following spring. That summer the Cleveland School of Art sponsored his first solo exhibition, and in the fall, after attending the National Academy of Design in New York for one month, he returned to Salem. In February 1917 the Cleveland School of Art mounted his second solo exhibition. Burchfield was inducted into the army that summer. After his return in 1919 he exhibited with other Cleveland modernists at the Play House, Laukhuff’ s Book store, and other Cleveland venues. In 1921 he went on an extended sketching trip through eastern Ohio with Keller, Wilcox, and Paul Travis, exhibiting these recent paintings at the Cleveland School of Art and in the May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Later that year he moved to Buffalo to work as a wallpaper designer, a position he retained until he resigned in 1929 to become a full-time painter. Over the next 30 years he exhibited extensively at museums and galleries across the country. Solo exhibitions of his paintings were held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (1930), Pittsburgh’ s Carnegie Institute of Art (1935, 1938, 1946), and Buffalo’ s Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1944, 1955, 1963, 1967). In 1953 New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art organized a major exhibition that traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Burchfield died in West Seneca, New York.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 224 --- measurements: Framed: 95.3 x 127.7 cm (37 1/2 x 50 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00 Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Charles Burchfield: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils 1916-1943 opening date: 1945-01-04T05:00:00 Charles Burchfield: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils 1916-1943. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 4-28, 1945). title: Charles Burchfield Retrospective Exhibition opening date: 1956-12-28T05:00:00 Charles Burchfield Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art (January 11-February 26, 1956); The Baltimore Museum of Art (March 14-April 22, 1956); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (May 9-June 17, 1956); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 11-August 19, 1956); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 5-October 14, 1956); The Phillips Collection (November 4-December 11, 1956); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 28, 1956-February 10, 1957). title: Charles Burchfield Retrospective, 9th Annual Exhibition opening date: 1961-06-26T04:00:00 Charles Burchfield Retrospective, 9th Annual Exhibition. Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME (organizer) (June 26-September 9, 1961). title: The Bird in Art opening date: 1964-11-07T05:00:00 The Bird in Art. University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (organizer) (November 7, 1964-January 3, 1965); Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (January 16-February 14, 1965). title: Exhibition of Ohio Painters opening date: 1967-04-04T05:00:00 Exhibition of Ohio Painters. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (organizer) (April 4-30, 1967). title: Charles Burchfield Retrospective opening date: 1968-03-01T05:00:00 Charles Burchfield Retrospective. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (organizer) (March 1-April 21, 1968). title: The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints opening date: 1970-04-03T05:00:00 The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (organizer) (April 3-June 14, 1970). title: A Distant Harmony: Comparisons in the Painting of Canada and the United States of America opening date: 1982-10-08T04:00:00 A Distant Harmony: Comparisons in the Painting of Canada and the United States of America. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (organizer) (October 8-November 28, 1982); Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada (February 17-March 27, 1983). title: Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940 opening date: 1989-06-28T04:00:00 Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989). title: Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age opening date: 2004-03-28T00:00:00 Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004). title: Charles E. Burchfield: A Lifetime of Themes opening date: 2021-12-10T05:00:00 Charles E. Burchfield: A Lifetime of Themes. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 10, 2021-May 1, 2022) https://burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:11-13-2020-02-28-2021-charles-e-burchfield-a-lifetime-of-themes/. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, June 23 - October 4, 1937: "Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today," cat. no. 17, p. 14.', 'opening_date': '1937-06-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2004-03-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937. page number: Mentioned: p. 14, no. 17 url: Francis, Henry. "Museum Water Colors and the Thirteenth Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 3 (March 1937): 39-41 page number: Mentioned: p. 40 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137832 --- IMAGES