Curated by Robert Gober
“It’s the last week to see Charles Burchfield’s spooky, gorgeous watercolors at the Whitney.”
—The Approval Matrix, New York Magazine
Video: Curator Carrie Springer and reporter Dana Tyler walk through the exhibition
—WCBS 2 News
Video: Curator Carrie Springer discusses the exhibition
—WNET/Thirteen Sunday Arts
Audio slide show, narrated by critic Peter Schjeldahl: “Mystical Realism”
—The New Yorker
Review: “An illuminating retrospective of the mystically inclined watercolor realist.”
—The New Yorker
Review: “This summer, if you’re looking for visionary company in the city . . . he’s the artist for you."
—The New York Times
Slide show: “The Paintings of Charles Burchfield”
—The New York Times
Review: “The landscapist swung between reality and hallucination.”
—Time Out New York
Review: “extrasensory visions of the American landscape”
—The New Criterion
The Approval Matrix: “Brilliant and Highbrow”
—New York
Review: “Burchfield infused his world with almost unbearable emotion.”
—The Financial Times
Review: “So go—experience these visionary paintings before they return to the darkness.”
—The Village Voice
“The Whitney Museum’s Most Wanted”
—The Wall Street Journal, Speakeasy blog
Review: “Probably the best show to come to any area museum in the past year.”
—The Bergen Record
“Burchfield channeled his experience of mystically animated nature into expansive watercolors of hallucinatory, sometimes nightmarish beauty.”
—The New York Times
Review: “A breathtaking exhibition”
—Los Angeles Times
“It’s hard to imagine two American artists more different than Robert Gober and Charles Burchfield.”
—The New York Times
“A new look at an edgy realist”
—Art News
