id: 130712
accession number: 1953.429
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.429
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Study No. 1 for: Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Gray/black wash, pen and black ink, and black and color crayons, with graphite and watercolor; sheet: 36.8 x 21.2 cm (14 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1953.429 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
title: Study No. 1 for: Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night
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creation date: 1917
creation date earliest: 1917
creation date latest: 1917
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creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright: Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gray/black wash, pen and black ink, and black and color crayons, with graphite and watercolor
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American 20th Century
type: Drawing
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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
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measurements: Sheet: 36.8 x 21.2 cm (14 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield
opening date: 1953-11-04T05:00:00
The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1953-January 10, 1954).
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: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
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: An American Visionary: Watercolors and Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield
opening date: 1986-03-20T05:00:00
An American Visionary: Watercolors and Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Currier Museum of Art; Berkshire Museum; Boston Athenaeum (March 20-May 16, 1986).
title: Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]
opening date: 2001-10-05T00:00:00
Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002).
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 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Charles Burchfield [1893-1967], Buffalo, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1917-1953
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date: 1953-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
De Grazia, Diana. "The Evolution of a Collection: Drawings in Cleveland." Master Drawings 38, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): 249-260.
page number: Mentioned: p. 258; Reproduced: p. 257
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Prasse, Leona E. "An Exhibition of the Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1953): 203.
page number: Mentioned: p. 203
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Prasse, Leona E. The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1953.
page number: Mentioned: no. 30; Reproduced: plate I
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Townsend, J. Benjamin. An American Visionary: Watercolors and Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Boston: Athenæum, 1986.
page number: Mentioned: no. 50
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Trovato, Joseph S. The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints. Exh. Cat. Utica, NY: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: no. 309
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 613
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n114
Chassey, Éric de. Made in USA l'art américain, 1908-1947 : [exposition] Bordeaux, musée des Beaux-Arts, 10 octobre-31 décembre 2001, Rennes, musée des Beaux-Arts, 18 janvier-31 mars 2002, Montpellier, musée Fabre, 12 avril-23 juin 2001 [i.e. 2002]. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 165
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Robinson, William H., Kathleen McKeever, "And All That Jazz", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 05, May 2004
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: 4-5
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-05/page/n3/
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IMAGES