Property from a Private New York Collection
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Freight Car Dwellings
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private New York Collection
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1893 - 1967
Freight Car Dwellings
signed C Burchfield and dated 1920 (lower right); titled (on the reverse)
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
12⅜ by 26⅜ in.
31.4 by 67 cm.
Executed in 1920.
We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York
Lawrence Fleischman, Detroit
Dr. Irving Levitt, Detroit
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
James and Margaret Smith, Louisville, Kentucky (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Christie's, New York, 24 May 1995, lot 95
Private Collection
Christie’s, New York, 25 May 2006, lot 19
Owen Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Connecticut
Franklin Riehlman Replica Handbags , New York
Private Collection, Saint Louis, Missouri (acquired in 2012)
Bernard Goldberg Replica Handbags s, New York
Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner
New York, Kevorkian Gallery, Drawings in Watercolor by Charles Burchfield, 1920, no. 46
Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, The James and Margaret Smith Collection, 1971
Richmond, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, Fred Giles Gallery, Centennial Exhibition: A Century of American Paintings, January - February 1974, no. 12, pp. 6, 8 and 19, illustrated
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York 1970, no. 592, p. 92
John I.H. Baur, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967, Newark 1982, no. 77, pp. 104 and 106, illustrated