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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.173
People
Charles E. Burchfield, American (Ashtabula Harbor, OH 1893 - 1967 Gardenville NY)
Title
Two Houses under a Viaduct
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Back Street
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1931
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370185

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
37 × 53.2 cm (14 9/16 × 20 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: CVB / 1931

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Rehn Galleries, New York], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Copyright
© Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.173
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4, repr. p. N1
  • 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. 36 on p. 105

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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