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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Charles Burchfield, Late Winter Dawn, 1956-65

Charles Burchfield

Late Winter Dawn, 1956-65
Watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on joined paper mounted on board
49 x 32 inches
124.5 x 81.3 cm
Signed with the artist's monogram and dated at lower left: CEB / 1956-65
Charles Burchfield, Journals, March 8, 1965 Chilly, damp, overcast — listless fall of snow at times —All day in studio on Late Winter Dawn. The most important change is the...
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Charles Burchfield, Journals, March 8, 1965

Chilly, damp, overcast — listless fall of snow at times —All day in studio on Late Winter Dawn. The most important change is the addition of stars — It now seems to 'hang together' better. Bertha thought it beautiful, and refused even to consider the thought that it might still have faults.

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Provenance

[Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York];

Argus Chemical Corporation, until 1965;

W. E. Leistner, Brooklyn, New York; to

[Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, May 23, 1991, lot 76];

Private collection, New York, until the present

Exhibitions

University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Charles Burchfield, His Golden Year, A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils, and Graphics, November 14, 1965-January 9, 1966, p. 56, no. 9, illus. // Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, Listening to the Trees: Burchfield Masterworks from the Spiro Family Collection, May 3-November 2, 2003, pp. 16-18, illus. // Debra Force Fine Art, New York, Charles Burchfield: Seasons of Change: 1918-1965, Spring 2011, illus.

// Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles E. Burchfield, August 23, 2014-February 22, 2015, p. 52, no. 29, illus. // Menconi + Schoelkopf, New York, Charles E. Burchfield: Inexhaustible, February 22-April 2, 2021, pp. 62-63, no. 21, illus. p. 51

Literature

"Artwork: Late Winter Dawn," Burchfield Penney Art Center, burchfieldpenney.org/collection/object:v2013-0226-001-late-winter-dawn/ // Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970, p. 310, no. 1307 // Nancy Weekly, Charles Burchfield: Ecstatic Light, New York, DC Moore Gallery, 2007, p. 13, illus.

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