August Afternoon

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left, in watercolor): C/B 1927

[Montross Gallery, New York, until 1928; sold on April 12, 1928 to MMA]

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. "Buffalo Society of Artists," February 1928 (Honorable Mention).

New York. Montross Gallery. "Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Charles Burchfield," March 26–April 7, 1928, no. 17.

Pittsburgh. Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute. "An Exhibition of Water Colors and Oils by Charles Burchfield," March 8–April 3, 1938, no. 5.

Art Institute of Chicago. "Twentieth International Exhibition of Water Colors," July 17–October 5, 1941, no. 216.

Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. "Charles Burchfield: A Retrospective Exhibition of Water Colors and Oils, 1916–1943," April 14–May 15, 1944, no. 32.

Washington, D.C. St. Albans School. "50th Anniversary Exhibition: Art and Secondary Education," May 21–June 3, 1959, no catalogue [exhibited in the section "50 American Paintings from 1873–1958"].

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 213.

Utica, N. Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "The Nature of Charles Burchfield—A Memorial Exhibition," April 9–May 31, 1970 [extended through June 14, 1970], no. 716.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield from the Collection," October 27, 1998–February 28, 1999, no catalogue.

Los Angeles. Hammer Museum. "Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," October 4, 2009–January 10, 2010, unnumbered cat. (p. 164).

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," June 24–October 17, 2010, unnumbered cat.

Edward Hopper. "Charles Burchfield: American." Arts 14 (July 1928), ill. p. 8.

"List of Accessions and Loans, April 6 to May 5, 1928." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 23 (June 1928), p. 170.

Haven Emerson and Earle B. Phelps. "The City Gains on the Country." Survey 62 (August 1929), ill. p. 471.

Henry H. Lyle. "Charles Burchfield, American." Proceedings of the Charaka Club 8 (1935), ill. between pp. 138 and 139, calls it "American Scene, 'August Afternoon'".

Dorothy Odenheimer. Art News 40 (September 1–30, 1941), p. 28.

Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. History of Water Color Painting in America. New York, 1966, pl. 123.

Joseph S. Trovato, ed. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica, N. Y., 1970, p. 126, no. 716, ill.

Matthew Baigell. Charles Burchfield. New York, 1976, colorpl. 19.

John I. H. Baur. The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893–1967. Cranbury, N.J., 1982, pp. 142–43, no. 2, fig. 120.

Colleen Laban Makowski. Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md., 1996, pp. 13–14, 38, 123, 135, 139, 168, nos. 129, 372, 1029, 1131, 1168, 1383.

Mary E. Murray. Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Utica, N.Y., 2008, pp. 11, 31, 50 n. 43.