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His Curious Nature
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His Curious Nature
CHARLES BURCHFIELD: PATH TO SOLITUDE continues through Feb. 28. The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, 124 E. Leasure Ave. New Castle, Pa. 724-652-2882 or www.hoytartcenter.org
CHARLES BURCHFIELD CALLED it his "golden year." In 1917, the Ohio-born painter created more than 400 poetic, evocative portayals of nature. These inspired him throughout his life and are considered among the most successful works by an artist widely known for depicting the effects of industri...
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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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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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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)
Arts & Activities
; THINGS TO KNOW 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
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CHARLES BURCHFIELD
The Village Voice
; CHARLES BURCHFIELD DC Moore 724 Fifth Avenue Through December 23 Transcendental landscapes, haunted houses, and trees with halos Young painters should look at the work of Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), the mystic, cryptic painter of transcendental landscapes, trees with telekinetic halos, and
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Nature's four seasons as inspiration
Art Education
; I used to harbor the thought that one year of Nature chronology would finish the job-would rob succeeding years of new chronologies. Even tho I walk forever on the same paths & in the woods &fields, and even note the same phenomena, each year will bring a new chronology, for my view of life
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Burchfield's skewed mastery revisited Watercolors range from the sentimental to severe
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; 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
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Clip & save art notes.(Biography)
Arts & Activities
; ABOUT THE ARTIST When Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967) was a boy, he often took long walks around his home in Salem, Ohio, to observe the natural world. He marveled at the progression of the seasons, the quality and changes in light over the course of the day, and especially the weather. He
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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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Seeing by moonlight
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; AS a boy growing up in Ohio, Charles Burchfield spent many hours studying insects and wildflowers and noting changes in the weather on the family calendar. After four years of formal training at the Cleveland School of Art, Burchfield made a series of nature and village-inspired watercolors from
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Partial genius: Exhibit features unfinished works by Charles Burchfield.
Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
; ... burchfield-penney.org cdabkowski@buffnews.com To see more of The Buffalo News, N.Y., or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.buffalonews.com. Copyright (c) 2007, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For ...
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