Charles Burchfield's paintings are dominated by time and memory. He painted as subjects powerful, emotionally charged memories of his childhood, particularly of Salem. He paints powerfully the images of the past in his memory and of the future in his imagination.
The American painter Charles Burchfield made a dramatic and, for his hometown, memorable debut in the New York City press when his first exhibition there was reviewed in 1920. The critic Henry McBride declared watercolors such as ...