Butterfly and Poppies

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

Date1950 – 1966

MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall Inches: 27-15/16 x 21-15/16 inches, sight: 27-1/2 x 21-5/8 inches, frame: 37-1/8 x 31-1/8 x 2 inches; Overall Centimeters: 71 x 55.7 cm, sight: 70.3 x 55 cm, frame: 945 x 79 x 5.1 cm

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.41

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedverso, original backing paper: “BUTTERFLY AND POPPIES” / 1950-1966 / (28 X 22) / GIVEN TO MY SISTER LOUISE / ON HER BIRTHDAY – AUG. 9, 1966 / (FROM BERTHA & CHARLIE)

Inscribedbottom left: CEB monogram / (1950)-1966

Exhibition HistoryFebruary Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020; 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; The Flower in 20th Century American Art, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, April 11–July 5, 1987; Watercolors by Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Kennedy Galleries, New York, March 27–April 20, 1985; Celebrate Ohio, Akron Art Institute, September 27–November 7, 1971; The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, April 9–May 31, 1970ProvenanceThe artist Louise H. Burchfield, Salem, Ohio, 1966 Acquired in 1986 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesAn Intimate Eye (2005), 9. Kramer, Hilton, “Critic’s Notebook: When More is Less,” Art & Antiques, December 1997, 105. Maciejunes, Nannette V., and Michael D. Hall, The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997), 157 (ill., color, pl. 31) The Nature of Charles Burchfield, A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967 (Utica, N.Y.: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970), n.p. (no. 297). 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, 134, 176, (ill. 135, 176). Townsend, J. Benjamin ed., Charles Burchfield’s Journals: The Poetry of Place (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 698 n. 70. Trovato, Joseph S. ed., Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections (Utica, N.Y.: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970), 314 (no. 1329). Watercolors by Charles Burchfield and John Marin (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1985), n.p. (ill., color, no. 40).