id: 128810 accession number: 1951.432 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.432 updated: 2022-01-04 15:43:18.772000 Hillside, May 24, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893-1967). Watercolor and opaque watercolor on Strathmore wove paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1951.432 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation title: Hillside title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: May 24, 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken copyright: Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Watercolor and opaque watercolor on Strathmore wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Straus 232; Trovato 302 --- 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: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: Strathmore wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Ways of Painting Landscapes opening date: 1953-03-13T05:00:00 Ways of Painting Landscapes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-May 6, 1953). 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 (December 28, 1956-February 10, 1957). title: Fine Arts Exhibition opening date: 1970-08-27T04:00:00 Fine Arts Exhibition. Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH (August 27-September 7, 1970). title: Water Colors from the Museum Collection opening date: 1973-07-23T04:00:00 Water Colors from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 23-September 16, 1973). title: Charles Burchfield opening date: 1979-01-01T05:00:00 Charles Burchfield. Ashtabula Arts Center. title: Charles Burchfield Exhibition opening date: 1979-05-30T04:00:00 Charles Burchfield Exhibition. Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH (organizer) (May 30-June 6, 1979). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920 opening date: 2018-12-22T05:00:00 Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2018-May 5, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield. Cleveland School of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 20 - May 10, 1941). * 8th Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 6 - December 7, 1930). --- PROVENANCE William M. Milliken [1889-1978], Cleveland, OH, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: -1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This drawing was made during 1917, which Burchfield describe as his "golden year," the most prolific period of his entire career. digital description: Burchfield was especially drawn to watercolor and experimented avidly with it throughout his entire career. This portable medium allowed him to explore the landscape and continuously rework his compositions. Here, he used shades of green to depict the countryside near his hometown, Salem, Ohio. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland School of Art, 1941. page number: Mentioned: no. 13 url: Trovato, Joseph S. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 60, no. 302 url: --- IMAGES