Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

June Morning

Details
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
June Morning
signed with monogram 'CEB' and dated '1917' (lower right)--dated again and inscribed with title and list number "XXI" (on the reverse)
pencil, colored pencil, Conté crayon and watercolor on joined paper laid down on paper
12 7/8 x 15 in. (32.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1917.
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, Cleveland, Ohio, acquired from the above, 1953.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Literature
C. Burchfield, Index for (Etchings-Woodcuts-Lithographs) and Drawings (1915-1953).
(Probably) J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 318, no. 1361.
Exhibited
New York, Kevorkian Gallery, Drawings in Watercolor by Charles Burchfield, February 16-28, 1920, no. 47.
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield—An Exhibition Sponsored by The Print Club of Cleveland and The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 31, 1953, no. 18.

Lot Essay

The present work depicts a house on Rose Street in Salem, Ohio on a June morning in 1917.

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