Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Little Trees Dancing
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1893 - 1967
Little Trees Dancing
inscribed with the artist's monogram and dated 1956 (lower left); titled and dated 1956 (on the reverse)
watercolor and charcoal on joined paper laid down on board
33 by 39¾ in.
83.8 by 101 cm.
Executed in 1956.
We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. John Clancy, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Titelman, Altoona, Pennsylvania
Mr, and Mrs. Scott L. Probasco, Jr., Chattanooga, Tennessee
Rehn Galleries, New York
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee (gift of the above in 1982)
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired in 1984 by the present owner
Buffalo, New York, Upton Hall Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Recent Paintings, April - May 1963, no. 18, p. 12
New York, Rehn Galleries, Charles Burchfield, January 1961, no. 9
Kansas City, Missouri, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery and Kansas City Art Institute, Charles Burchfield – Inaugural Exhibition, September - October 1963, n.p., illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect, May – June 1964, no. 21, p. 24, illustrated
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York 1970, no. 1144, pp. 264 and 266, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Buffalo, New York, Upton Hall Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Recent Paintings, April-May 1963, p. 12
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect, May-June 1964, pp. 10, 24
Colleen Lahan Makowski, Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, Maryland 1996, pp. 35, 98, 134, and 195