id: 150428 accession number: 1981.207 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.207 updated: 2023-05-13 11:08:23.318000 Crickets in November, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Pen and brown ink with black ink, colored crayons, and graphite, with watercolor on two sheets of butt-joined wove paper, lined; 21.9 x 27.6 cm (8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1981.207 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation title: Crickets in November 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: Pen and brown ink with black ink, colored crayons, and graphite, with watercolor on two sheets of butt-joined 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: 21.9 x 27.6 cm (8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed, in ink, at lower right: CEB (monogram) / 1917 translation: remark: --- 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: The Year in Review for 1981 opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). 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 * 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). --- PROVENANCE Leona E. Prasse [1897-1985], Cleveland, OH, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1981 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1981- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Burchfield had an interest in depicting personified buildings, and the windows of the house at right were meant to make it seem alive. digital description: This drawing contains themes that Burchfield developed to visually convey sound—in this case, the repetitive chirping of crickets. The combination of script-like lines and repeated forms in the foreground evoked the rising and falling of the insects’ noise, and recurred throughout Burchfield’s work around this time. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Maciejunes, Nannette V., and Norine S. Hendricks. "Nurturing His Muse: The Archives of Charles Burchfield's Creative Life." American Art Journal 28, no. 1/2 (1997): 68, 74 (repr. of reproduction). page number: url: Prasse, Leona E. The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1953. page number: Mentioned: no. 28; Reproduced: plate II url: Bauer, John I. H. Charles Burchfield. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum, 1956. page number: Mentioned: no. 98 url: 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. 311 url: Prasse, Leona E. The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1953, no. 28, repr. plate II. page number: url: Bauer, John I. H. Charles Burchfield. Exh. Cat. New York. Whitney Museum, 1956, no. 98. page number: url: --- IMAGES