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Country Church in June

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

American (1893-1967)

Country Church in June, 1918
Watercolor and gouache on joined paper, 27 7/16 x 20 1/8 inches

Watercolor and gouache on joined paper

Signed and dated C Burchfield/1918 bottom right; titled, dated, and inscribed with dimensions verso.

Recent Acquisition

Provenance:

Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, New York.
Dr. Theodore Leshner, Brooklyn, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan.
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York.
Private Collection, Huntington Woods, Michigan.
Christie’s, New York, sale of May 22, 1980, lot unknown.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
Private Collection, New Jersey.
Richard York Gallery, New York, New York.
Acquired directly from the above in 1989.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and Sandy Rifkin, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Exhibited:

“Early Water Colors [sic] of Charles Burchfield,” Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 5, 1933-February 15, 1934.
“Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, April 24-May 19, 1963 no. 41.
“Burchfield’s Seasons,” Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, April 28-May 28, 1982, no. 8 (illustrated in color in the accompanying exhibition catalogue).
“The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, March 23-May 18, 1997; and National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington D.C., September 26-January 25, 1998 (traveling exhibition), illustrated in color p. 163.

Literature:

John W. Straus, Charles E. Burchfield: An Interview with the Artist, and Account and Analysis of His Production, and a Catalogue of His Paintings, an Honors Thesis, Harvard University, Boston, 1942, no. 321.
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 449, p. 78.

“The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, March 23-May 18, 1997; and National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington D.C., September 26-January 25, 1998 (traveling exhibition), illustrated in color p. 163.

Note

A copy of a research report dated October 26, 2022 compiled by Ms. Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York will accompany this.

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