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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Hillside is a 24 by Charles Burchfield, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You’re looking at a sloping hill covered in thick, bright green trees and grass. The sky is a soft, pale blue with a few wispy clouds. Burchfield painted this in 1917, right outside his Ohio hometown. He loved watercolor because it let him work fast and change things on the spot—you can almost see the quick, loose brushstrokes. The colors feel alive, like the hill is breathing. If you like this, check out more subject: america landscapes from the same era.
Burchfield was especially drawn to watercolor and experimented avidly with it throughout his entire career. This portable medium allowed him to explore the landscape and continuously rework his compositions. Here, he used shades of green to depict the countryside near his hometown, Salem, Ohio.
This drawing was made during 1917, which Burchfield describe as his "golden year," the most prolific period of his entire career.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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.
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