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Charles Burchfield
Long Shadows, 1915Watercolor on paper9 x 12 inches
22.9 x 30.5 cmSigned and dated at lower right: Chas Burchfield / June-1915Charles Burchfield’s Long Shadows reflects the artist’s affinity for experimenting with light and color. A contemporaneous entry from Burchfield’s journals evidences his fascination with the temporal effects on the landscape:...Charles Burchfield’s Long Shadows reflects the artist’s affinity for experimenting with light and color. A contemporaneous entry from Burchfield’s journals evidences his fascination with the temporal effects on the landscape: "A cold windy day – soft flaky windy day clouds move across the rich blue sky all day. … The sunsets at this season are romantic – to see long blue green shadows stretching out to yellow remotely sunlit distances is to live in another world." Burchfield’s highly saturated colors give the work a graphic quality. These flat expanses of color anticipate the work of later contemporary artists, such as David Hockney and his digital drawings.Provenance
The artist;
[Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1970];
Private collection, until 2023
Exhibitions
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, Interpretations of Nature: an Exhibition and Sale of Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield, January 20-February 7, 1970, p. 5, no. 15Literature
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970, p. 32, no. 22
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