id: 141921 accession number: 1965.461 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.461 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:14.309000 The Sunflower Arch, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Black crayon, colored crayons, and indelible pencil, with graphite on wove paper, lined; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1965.461 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation title: The Sunflower Arch title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection copyright: Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Black crayon, colored crayons, and indelible pencil, with graphite on wove paper, lined 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: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator opening date: 1985-05-28T04:00:00 Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-August 25, 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 * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 228): February 22, 2010 - May 17, 2010.', 'opening_date': '2010-02-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970 (April 9 – May 31, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-05-31T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Leona E. Prasse [1897-1985], gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: -1965 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1965- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Prasse, Leona E. The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953. page number: Mentioned: no. 24; Reproduced: plate V url: Bauer, John I. H. Charles Burchfield. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum, 1956. page number: Mentioned: no. 99 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 191 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n215 Burchfield, Charles E., and Edith H. Jones. The Drawings of Charles Burchfield. New York: Frederic A. Praeger, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 13; Reproduced: plate 4 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 191 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n215 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. 313 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 237 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n257 Thorson, Victoria. Great Drawings of All Times: The Twentieth Century, vol. II. Redding, CT: Talisman, 1979. page number: Reproduced: fig. 342 url: --- IMAGES