Two Fence Posts by Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Art Institute of Chicago

Two Fence Posts

Charles Ephraim Burchfield · 1937

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, "An Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils by Charles Burchfield," Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1938, cat. 41.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Seventeenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings, and Monotypes," Apr. 28–May 30, 1938, p. 6, cat. 188.
  • Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, "A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Oils, 1916–1943," Apr. 14–May 15, 1944; also Scranton, Penn., Everhart Museum, 1944; Springfield, Illinois State Museum of Natural History and Art, 1944; Indianapolis Art Association and Herron Museum of Art, 1944; Louisville, J.B. Speed Museum of Art, Nov. 5–23, 1944; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Dec. 3–26, 1944; Cleveland Museum of Art, under "Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Burchfield," Jan. 5–28, 1945; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, Feb. 7–28, 1945; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, under "The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," Mar. 11–Apr. 1, 1945, cat. 22; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College, Apr. 8–30, 1945; Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1945;; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, 1945; San Francisco Museum of Art, Oct. 23–Nov.r 25, 1945; and Quincy, Illinois, Quincy Art Club, 1945.
  • Valparaiso, Ind., Christ College Gallery, Valparaiso University, "Charles Burchfield: The Middle Years," Oct. 31–Nov. 21, 1974, no cat.
  • Buffalo, N.Y., Burchfield Art Center, State University College at Buffalo, "The Art Triangle: Artist/Dealer/Collector; Burchfield and His Colleagues," May 1988-June 15, 1988.
  • Columbus Museum of Art, "Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest," Mar. 23–May 18, 1997, p. 144, fig. 15; also Buffalo, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, June 15–Aug. 17, 1997; and Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Sept. 26, 1997–Jan. 25, 1998.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • John J. O’Connor, Jr., “Charles Burchfield: Exhibition of his Paintings at the Carnegie Museum,” Carnegie Museum 11:10 (Mar. 1938), p. 312.
  • “Pittsburgh: A Comprehensive Showing of the Work of Burchfield,” Art News 36:27 (Apr. 2, 1938), p. 18.
  • Adalbert R. Kretzmann, “Charles Ephraim Burchfield,” Cresset 8 (Mar. 1945), p. 36.
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections (Utica, N.Y., 1970), pp. 176, 321, 324, and 340–41.
  • Colleen Lahan Makowski, Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography (Lanham, Md., 1996), pp. 10, 133, 141–42, 162, and 206.

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