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Street Scene – Sun and Shadow
Artist
Charles E. Burchfield
(American, 1893 - 1967)
Datec. 1933
MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper
DimensionsOverall Inches: 19-1/4 x 18-5/8 inches, sight: 18-3/8 x 17-7/8 inches, frame: 24-3/8 x 23-3/8 x 2-1/8 inches; Overall Centimeters: 48.9 x 47.3 cm, sight: 46.6 x 45.6 cm, frame: 63 x 60.3 x 5.5 cm
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.40
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NameWatercolor
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right: Chas Burchfield
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; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, March 23–May 18, 1997, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, June 15–August 17, 1997, National Museum of American Art, September 26, 1997–January 25, 1998; Charles E. Burchfield: The Middle Years, 1929 to 1950; Kennedy Galleries, New York, October 25–November 25, 1978ProvenanceAcquired in 1984 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesBaur, John I. H. "Introduction," in Charles R. Burchfield: The Middle Years, 1929-1950 New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1978. n.p. (ill., color, no. 7).
An Intimate Eye, 2005, no.14.
Makowski, Colleen Lahan. Charles Burchfiled: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, 1996. 79.
Maciejunes, Nannette V. and Michael D. Hall. The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 192 (ill., color, no. 74).
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), 60, 62-62, 134, 176, (ill. 58, 60, 176).