September Sun and Waterfall

Artist Charles E. Burchfield (American, 1893 - 1967)

Date1915

MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall Inches: 13-15/16 x 20-1/16 inches, sight: 13-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches, frame: 22 x 17-7/8 x 1-3/8 inches; Overall Centimeters: 35.4 x 52.4 cm, sight: 34.5 x 49.8 cm, frame: 55.9 x 70.8 x 3.8 cm

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.39

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: Chas. Burchfield / Sept 1915

Inscribedcolor notations in pencil throughout: (lt ochre, all YG, GBG, BG, etc.); verso: SEPTEMBER SUN & WATERFALL

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; Varied and Untried: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013; A Specimen: Natural History and American Modernism, 1900–1950; Palmer Museum of Art, June 15–September 12, 2004; Capturing the Light: A Selection of Twentieth-Century American Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, January 28–May 18, 1997; Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, April 8–June 24, 1984; Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, April 24–May 19, 1963 ProvenanceThe artist, until at least 1963 Acquired in 1982 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesCharles Burchfield: Recent Paintings [and] Charles Burchfield: Early Watercolors (Buffalo: Upton Hall Gallery, State University College at Buffalo and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1963), 17 (no. 4). Preisner, Olga K. Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors (Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984), 10 (no. 49), 35 (ill., no. 49). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 6-7, 62-64, 133, 175, (ill. 7, 62, 175). Trovato, Joseph S. ed., Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections (Utica, N.Y.: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970), 34 (no. 31).