Partial genius: Exhibit features unfinished works by Charles Burchfield.

From: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) | Date: July 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Colin Dabkowski

Jul. 13--In the mid-1950s, watercolorist Charles Burchfield painted a perfectly beautiful scene, marked by his trademark trees and blooming fields under a sky of wobbly gray clouds.

But something wasn't right.

Over the next eight years, Burchfield worked on a larger painting, using his original landscape as the centerpiece and adding strips of paper above and below to create an arched blue dome beneath sunlit clouds. Althoug...

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