Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.463
People
Charles E. Burchfield, American (Ashtabula Harbor, OH 1893 - 1967 Gardenville NY)
Title
August Sunlight
Other Titles
Alternate Title: August Noon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1916
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306459

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor with added viscous medium over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
35.5 × 55.6 cm (14 × 21 7/8 in.)
frame: 55.9 × 70.8 × 4 cm (22 × 27 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: C. E. Burchfield 1916
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now encapsulated in curatorial file, paper: TR 54/4
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now encapsulated in curatorial file, paper: Color in Art / Cat. no. 4
  • (not assigned): on verso, center, in graphite: August Noon / August 31, 1916

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Rehn Gallery, New York New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.463
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 119
  • Benjamin Rowland, "Burchfield's 'Seasons'", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1946), vol. X, no. 5, pp. 155-161
  • Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, NY, 1970), no. 170, p. 49
  • James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), pp. 40-41, cat. 4 ill.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 32, 57, 58, 91, cat. 8, fig. 21 (detail)
  • Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 909
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 48-49, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 48
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 1, Page 48

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933
  • Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
  • An Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield and Charles Sheeler, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, 01/12/1935 - 02/02/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935
  • American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
  • Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1944, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 06/01/1944 - 06/28/1944
  • Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu