biographie de Charles Ephraim BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

Birth place: Ashtabula, OH

Death place: Buffalo, NY

Addresses: Cleveland, OH, 1912-21; Buffalo, NY, 1921-25; Gardenville, NY, 1925-; West Senaca, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: Cleveland Sch. A., 1912-16; Hon. Degree, L.H.D., Kenyon Col., Gambier, Ohio; Hon. Degrees, Art D., Harvard Univ.; Art D., Hamilton Univ.; L.H.D., Valparaiso Univ.

Exhibited: Cleveland SA, 1921 (prize); Cleveland Mus. A., 1921 (med.); Salons of Am., 1924, 1935 (prize); S.Indp.A.; Corcoran Gal, 1928-39, 1957-65; PAFA, 1927-64 (Sesnan gold medal, 1929; Schiedt medal, 1958); Carnegie Inst.; Newport AA, 1938 (prize); San Diego FA Soc., 1940 (prize); AIC, 1941 (prize); Univ. Buffalo, 1944 (prize); MMA; Newark Mus.; RISD; BMFA; FMA; CMA; PMG; BM; MoMA; John Herron AI, 1929-1946; retrospective exh. covering 40 years of work, WMAA, 1956; Nat. Inst. A. & Lets., 1960 (gold medal). In 1963, three exhibitions ran concurrently, in Buffalo, NY, covering his entire career, as follows: Albright-Knox A. Gal., (1915-21 period), Goodman Gal. (1922-42 period), Upton Hall, NY Univ. College at Buffalo (1943-63 period). "The Sacred Woods" (traveling exh.) began at the Drawing Center, NYC, 1993.

Member: Am. Acad. A. & Sc., Boston; Nat. Inst. A. & Lets.; AWCS; N.A.

Work: The Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, houses the largest collection of his work and has published comprehensive catalogues of both his works and his journals; BM; MMA; Cleveland Mus. A.; Albright Gal., Buffalo; PAFA; NMAA; Newark Mus.; MoMA; WMAA; Herron AI, Indianapolis; Phillips Mem. Gal., Wash., DC; FMA; BMFA; Detroit Inst. A.; RISD; Syracuse Mus. A.; Hackley A. Gal., Muskegon, Mich.; Wichita A. Mus.; Nebr. Univ; FMA; BMFA; Wichita A. Mus., Kansas; Univ. Nebraska.

Comments: Known for his fantasy-like woodland and landscape scenes and his pictures of the houses and streets of Midwestern towns. Burchfield worked primarily in watercolor. Burchfield studied at the Cleveland Sch. Art before moving to Buffalo, NY, in 1921, where he headed up the design dept. of M.H. Birge and Sons wallpaper company. Teaching positions: Art Inst. of Buffalo, 1949-52; Univ. of Buffalo, 1950-52. Marlor gives place of death as Gardenville, NY.

Sources: WW66; WW47; John I.H. Baur, Charles Burchfield (1956); Krane, The Wayward Muse, 186; Matthew Baigell, Charles Burchfield (1976); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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