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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.28
People
Charles E. Burchfield, American (Ashtabula Harbor, OH 1893 - 1967 Gardenville NY)
Title
Old Farm House (September Sunlight)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306651

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 38.4 x 55.4 cm (15 1/8 x 21 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.l.: CB 1932
  • exhibition label: removed from frame? encapsulated in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: S. E. No. 526
  • exhibition label: removed from frame? encapsulated in curatorial file, paper, printed
  • exhibition label: 1965-1966, removed from frame? encapsulated in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.28
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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
  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 32
  • Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, NY, 1970), no. 804, p. 153
  • 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. 148, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
  • Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934
  • An Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield and Charles Sheeler, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, 01/12/1935 - 02/02/1935
  • Watercolors by Contemporary Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1935 - 06/25/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Association, 1935, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 12/08/1935 - 12/31/1935
  • Ten American Watercolor Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/15/1939 - 05/07/1939
  • 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
  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Thomas Crane Public Library, 1955, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, 08/15/1955 - 08/20/1955
  • Charles Burchfield: His Golden Year, a Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils, and Graphics, University of Arizona, Tucson, 11/14/1965 - 01/09/1966
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1966, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 10/15/1966 - 12/15/1966
  • The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 04/09/1970 - 05/31/1970
  • 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

Verification Level

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