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Burchfield's skewed mastery revisited Watercolors range from the sentimental to severe
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Yet another candidate for the title of America's most-neglected
artist is Charles Burchfield, whose winsome, wild and sometimes-
wacky
watercolors are on display through January at the National Museum
of American Art.
Burchfield, who lived and worked in the Great Lakes region, was
highly popular during his lifetime (1893-1967) and made a comfortable
living from his paintings for more than a half century. Why his
reputation faded is a mystery, because Burchfield was a master of
his me...
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Charles Burchfield: The Big Chill
The Washington Post
; YET ANOTHER candidate for the title of America's most-neglected artist is Charles Burchfield, whose winsome or wild and sometimes wacky watercolors are on display at the National Museum of American Art. Burchfield, who lived and worked in the Great Lakes region, was highly popular during his
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Old houses and moody nature. (the artwork of Charles Burchfield)(Brief Article)
Insight on the News
; An American pointer took ordinary life and fumed it into extraordinary works of art. More so than most artists, Charles Burchfield painted scenes from his life. I've painted almost everything you can see from the studio window, he once confided with surprise in his journal. Somehow after you live
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Bruce Allen Burchfield 1947 - 2006: Banker helped create nation's ATM network.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ... Saturday at Medinah Country Club in Medinah. Copyright (c) 2006, Chicago Tribune Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
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Grant enables easy access to art archives.(news)(services of Terra Foundation for American Art)(finance of Archives of American Art)
Art Business News
; CHICAGO -- The Terra Foundation for American Art recently announced its $3,625 million grant to the Archives of American Art, the largest and most widely used resource on the history of art in America, to dramatically increase access to its holdings. The grant will fund a comprehensive, five-year
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Charles Burchfield's Upstate State of Mind
The Washington Post
; Of those painters of mid-century remembered as the Regionalists, Charles Burchfield, the northernmost, was certainly the strangest and the most rhapsodic. He deserves to be renowned. The man lived all his life where Lake Erie's winds blow coldest, and kept looking through the window and painting
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