Artist

Charles Burchfield

Portrait of Charles Burchfield
Portrait of Charles Burchfield

American, 1893–1967

Charles Burchfield was an American artist. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula.

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 – January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo. His paintings are in the collections of more than 109 museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as other prominent institutions.

Works by Charles Burchfield

Collections represented

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