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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
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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

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