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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Charles Burchfield, Sun Setting in a Bank of Smoke, 1917

Charles Burchfield

Sun Setting in a Bank of Smoke, 1917
Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted on board
21 x 17 inches
53.3 x 43.2 cm
Signed at lower left: Chas. Burchfield / 1917

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Irving Frederick Burton, Huntington Woods, Michigan, 1970; 
Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection, New York, until the present

Exhibitions

Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, Early Water-Colors by Charles Burchfield, 1917-1918 Period, November 20-December 16, 1939, no. 18 // The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Charles Burchfield Memorial Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings, March 1-April 21, 1968, illus. // DC Moore Gallery, New York, Charles Burchfield Paintings 1915-1964, November 9-December 23, 2005, illus. p. 25 and cover // Menconi + Schoelkopf, New York, Charles E. Burchfield: Inexhaustible, February 22-April 2, 2021, p. 59, no. 4, illus. p. 29 and frontispiece

Literature

“Artwork: Sun Setting in a Bank of Smoke,” Burchfield Penney Art Center, burchfieldpenney.org/collection/object:v2014-0813-004-sunsetting-in-a-bank-of-smoke/ // Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 30 (May 15, 1917), p. 53 // John W. Straus, “Charles E. Burchfield: An Interview with the Artist, An Account and Analysis of His Production and a Catalogue of His Paintings,” honors thesis, Harvard University, 1942, no. 216 // Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970, p. 60, no. 300

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