Classroom use of the art print: Charles Burchfield (American; 1893-1967). Night of the Equinox, 1917-55. Watercolor, brush and ink, gouache and charcoal on paper mounted on paperboard. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.(Biography)

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The American watercolorist Charles Burchfield was born in 1893 in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. After graduating from high school (he was the class valedictorian), he enlisted in the army where he worked as a camouflage painter. After the war he moved to Cleveland and enrolled in art school. In the early 1920s Burchfield worked as a wallpaper designer and painted in his spare time, often choosing to depict scenes of the streets, harbors and countryside around his new town, Buffalo, N.Y.

In 1929, after a prominent New York art dealer began representing him, ...

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