Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

Exhibition works

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  Charles Burchfield, The Insect Chorus, 1917. Opaque and transparent watercolor with ink, graphite, and crayon on off-white paper, 20 × 157⁄8 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm). Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York. Edward W. Root Bequest, 1957.

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  Charles Burchfield, The Song of the Katydids on an August Morning, 1917. Watercolor, gouache, graphite, colored chalks, and pastel on off-white wove paper, 18 × 21 3/4 in. (45.1 × 55.2 cm). Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection.

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  Charles Burchfield, Pyramid of Fire (Pyramid of Flame), 1929. Watercolor on paper, 241⁄2 x 327⁄8 in. (61 × 81.3 cm). The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Works by Charles E. Burchfield at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, 1994.

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  Charles Burchfield, Black Iron, 1935. Watercolor on paper, 281⁄8 x 40 in. (71.1 × 101.6 cm). Private collection.

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  Charles Burchfield, End of the Day, 1938. Watercolor on paper, 381⁄4 x 581⁄4 in. (97.1 × 148 cm). The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Joseph E. Temple Fund, 1940.

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  Charles Burchfield, Two Ravines, 1934–43. Watercolor on paper, 361⁄2 x 611⁄8 in. (92.7 × 155.3 cm). Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gift of the Benwood Foundation.

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  Charles Burchfield, Sun and Rocks, 1918–50. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 40 × 56 in. (101.6 × 142.2 cm). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1953.

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  Charles Burchfield, Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring), 1950. Watercolor on paper, 401⁄8 x 293⁄4 in. (101.6 × 73.7 cm). Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959.

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  Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946–55. Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper, 40 × 54 in. (101.6 x 137.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with partial funds from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman  55.39

  All works by Charles Burchfield are reproduced with permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation

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  Charles Burchfield, Dawn of Spring, ca. 1960s. Watercolor, charcoal, and white chalk on joined paper mounted on board, 52 × 591⁄2 in. (132.1 × 135.3 cm). DC Moore Gallery, New York.

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  Charles Burchfield, Dandelion Seed Heads and the Moon, 1961–65. Watercolor, gouache, charcoal, and graffito on lightly textured white wove paper faced on ¼-inch thick laminated gray cardboard, 56 × 395⁄8 in. (142.2 × 99 cm). Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection.