http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0022/8177/whitneystore_2112_4165958_200.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p>Although he lived next door to Niagara Falls, artist Charles Burchfield (1893&ndash;1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield&rsquo;s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:00:50 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/News</font></p> Whitney Museum of American Art Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:58:13 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/News http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/News <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Events</font></p> Whitney Museum of American Art Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:45:40 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Events http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Events <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Images</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Images"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0019/4409/burchfield800t018_323.jpg" /></a></p> Whitney Museum of American Art Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:48:20 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Images http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield/Images