Harvard Art Museums > 1934.63: March Sunlight Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"March Sunlight (Charles E. Burchfield) , 1934.63,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 31, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306608. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1934.63 People Charles E. Burchfield, American (Ashtabula Harbor, OH 1893 - 1967 Gardenville NY) Title March Sunlight Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1926-1933 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/306608 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on beige wove paper mounted to board Dimensions sheet: 59 × 81.3 cm (23 1/4 × 32 in.) board: 59.4 × 84 cm (23 3/8 × 33 1/16 in.) frame: 74.2 × 97.2 × 4.3 cm (29 3/16 × 38 1/4 × 1 11/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: watercolor, l.l.: CEB [in monogram] exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Apr 9 1970 - May 31 1970 exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: S. O. no. 56-568N; box no. 13 label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: no. 56-1948 exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed and handwritten: no. TR 11629/38 [handwritten: 13] exhibition label: backing, paper Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1934. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund Copyright © Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Accession Year 1934 Object Number 1934.63 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 William Germain Dooley, "Realist Trio Show Harvard Their Works", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, December 8, 1934), p. 7, ill. Catalogue of the Twentieth International Exhibition of Water Colors, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1941), checklist no. 224 Charles Burchfield, American Artists Group (New York, NY, 1945), reproduced 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 John I. H. Baur, Charles Burchfield, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1956), reproduced Charles E. Burchfield, The Drawings of Charles Burchfield, ed. Edith Jones, Praeger Publishers (New York, NY, 1968), repr. Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, NY, 1970), no. 825, p. 162; repr. p. 160 Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 149, ill. J. Benjamin Townsend, ed., Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY, 1993), fig. 75 Nannette V. Maciejunes and Michael D. Hall, The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1997), no. 116, repr. in color, p. 225 Tullis Johnson and Lucy Lippard, Blistering Vision: Charles E. Burchfield's Sublime American Landscapes, exh. cat., Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY, 2016), pp. 8-9, 63, 121, ill. (color) Tullis Johnson, Burchfield’s Dreams: Works and Writings by Charles E. Burchfield, Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, New York, 2018), plate: p. 70; caption: p. 88. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 37 on p. 106 Exhibition History An Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield and Charles Sheeler, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, 01/12/1935 - 02/02/1935 American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936 Ten American Watercolor Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/15/1939 - 05/07/1939 Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939 20th International Exhibition of Water Colors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, New York, 10/16/1941 - 11/09/1941 Charles Burchfield: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils 1916-1943, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 04/14/1944 - 05/15/1944 Museum's Choice: Paintings by Contemporary Americans, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 02/03/1945 - 02/25/1945 Unidentified Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, 1945, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 05/10/1945 - 06/06/1945 Museum's Choice, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/06/1946 - 02/28/1946; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 03/08/1946 - 04/08/1946 Unidentified Exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1948, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 10/01/1948 - 11/30/1948 Unidentified Exhibition, Thomas Crane Public Library, 1955, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, 08/15/1955 - 08/20/1955 Charles Burchfield Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/11/1956 - 02/25/1956; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 03/14/1956 - 04/22/1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/09/1956 - 06/17/1956; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 07/11/1956 - 08/19/1956; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 09/05/1956 - 10/14/1956; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 11/04/1956 - 12/11/1956; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 01/03/1957 - 02/10/1957 Unidentified Exhibition, Wesleyan University, 1959, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 07/01/1959 - 08/31/1959 Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings by Charles Burchfield, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1961 - 09/09/1961 Charles Burchfield Memorial Exhibition: Paintings and Drawings, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 03/01/1968 - 04/21/1968 Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 03/23/1997 - 05/18/1997; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, 06/15/1997 - 08/17/1997 Charles Burchfield’s Blistering Vision, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, 07/08/2016 - 10/31/2016 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. 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