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Title:Dandelion Seed Balls and Trees
Artist:Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1893–1967 West Seneca, New York)
Date:1917
Medium:Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:22 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (56.5 × 46.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1940
Accession Number:40.47.2
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Chas Burchfield–1917; inscribed and dated (verso): DANDELION SEED-BALLS AND TREES May 25, 1917
[Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York, until 1940; sold on March 11, 1940 to MMA]
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Early Water-Colors by Charles Burchfield, 1917–1918 Period," November 20–December 16, 1939, no. 8 (as "Dandelion Seed-Balls and Trees," May 25, 1917).
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. 11.
American Federation of Arts circulating exhibition. "The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, 28 Paintings from the Retrospective Exhibition Organized by the Albright Art Gallery," 1945.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," April 9–May 19, 1946, no. 8.
Vienna. Albertina Museum. "Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells," October 1–December 5, 1949, no. 43 (as "Lowenzahnsamen und Baume").
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. "American Water Colors: A Loan Exhibition Recently Shown at the Albertina Gallery in Vienna, Austria," February 1–28, 1950, no. 1.
Brooklyn Museum. "Revolution and Tradition: An Exhibition of the Chief Movements in American Painting from 1900 to the Present," November 15, 1951–January 6, 1952, no. 140.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Charles Burchfield," January 11–February 26, 1956, no. 13.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield," March 14–April 22, 1956.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Charles Burchfield," May 9–June 17, 1956.
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield," July 11–August 19, 1956.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield," September 5–October 14, 1956.
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "Charles Burchfield," November 4–December 11, 1956.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield," January 3–February 10, 1957.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 211.
Katonah, N.Y. Katonah Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield," September 17–October 31, 1967, no catalogue [possibly this work].
New York. American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Charles Burchfield Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 21, 1968.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
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. 301.
Valparaiso, Ind. Christ College Commons, Valparaiso University. "Early Watercolors of Charles Burchfield," February 11–March 4, 1974, no catalogue.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," September 2–October 24, 1976, unnumbered cat. (fig. 290; as "Dandelions Seed Balls and Trees").
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," November 23, 1976–January 23, 1977, unnumbered cat.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," February 20–April 17, 1977, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893–1967," January 30–March 25, 1984, unnumbered cat. (fig. 36).
Milwaukee Art Museum. "The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893–1967," April 20–June 17, 1984, unnumbered cat.
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Art Center. "The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893–1967," September 14–November 11, 1984, unnumbered cat.
Columbus Museum of Art. "The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield 1915–1921," December 13, 1987–February 7, 1988.
Laguna Beach Museum of Art. "The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield 1915–1921," March 5–April 24, 1988.
Buffalo, N.Y. Burchfield Art Center, State University College. "The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield 1915–1921," May 14–July 3, 1988.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "The Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector," March 18–April 30, 1989, no. 10.
Buffalo, N.Y. Burchfield Art Center, Rockwell Hall, State University College at Buffalo. "The Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector," May 13–June 25, 1989, no. 10.
Denver Art Museum. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selection 2," February 2–March 31, 1991, no. 150.
Norfolk. Chrysler Museum. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selection 2," May 9–July 7, 1991, no. 150.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 15–December 10, 1991, no. 150.
Clinton, N. Y. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Extending the Golden Year: Charles Burchfield Centennial," March 6–April 25, 1993, no. 32.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Charles Burchfield from the Collection," October 27, 1998–February 28, 1999, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Drawings (1900–1950): Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 25, 2005–April 23, 2006, 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. 162).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," June 24–October 17, 2010, unnumbered cat.
"Metropolitan Museum Buys 5 U.S. Paintings." Wilmington News Journal (March 16, 1940), p. 7C.
Louise G. Burroughs. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (March 1940), p. 69.
"Museum Gets a Renaissance Marble Group.
'Alpheus and Arethusa,' by Lorenzi, Is Among New Works at Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (March 17, 1940), p. 37.
"Metropolitan Acquires Six New Hearns." Art Digest 14 (April 1, 1940), p. 15.
"New York: Metropolitan's New U.S. Paintings." Art News 38 (March 30, 1940), p. 20.
Carlyle Burrows. "The Re-arranged American Rooms at the Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (August 31, 1941), p. E5.
Justus Bier. "Art: Burchfield at Speed." Courier-Journal (November 5, 1944), p. 1, section 2, ill.
Herbert Furst. "Burchfield." Apollo 40 (November 1, 1944), p. 124.
American Artists Group, ed. Charles Burchfield. New York, 1945, unpaginated, ill.
Belle Krasne. "Twentieth-Century American Painting—In Revolt and in the Tradition." Art Digest 26 (December 1, 1951), ill. p. 6.
"Fantasy and Symbolism in Charles Burchfield's Early Watercolors." Art Quarterly 19 (Spring 1956), p. 38.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. History of Water Color Painting in America. New York, 1966, colorpl. 124.
Patricia Boyd Wilson. "In Others' Shoes." Christian Science Monitor (February 2, 1967), p. 8, ill., calls it "Dandelion Seedballs and Trees" in caption.
Ralph Fabri. History of the American Watercolor Society: The First Hundred Years. [New York], 1969, ill. p. 49 (color).
Joseph S. Trovato, ed. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica, N. Y., 1970, p. 60, no. 301, ill.
"To Display Art." Vidette-Messenger (February 7, 1974), p. 10.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. New York, 1976, pp. 329–30, 432, fig. 290.
John I. H. Baur. The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893–1967. Cranbury, N.J., 1982, p. 58, fig. 36.
Michael Brenson. "Art: Charles Burchfield, A Timely Retrospective." New York Times (February 3, 1984), p. C24, ill. (detail).
"Farther Afield." Capital Times (April 19, 1984), p. 6, ill.
"Calendar; Artistic Cues from Nature." Racine Journal Times (April 26, 1984), p. 28, ill.
Matthew Baigell. A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture. New York, 1984, p. 258, fig. 257.
Victor Koshkin-Youritzin inAmerican Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum. New York, 1991, pp. 32–33, ill. (detail), colorpl. 150.
Kate Farrell. Art and Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry. New York, 1992, ill. p. 35 (color), illustrates a poem by Jules Supervielle.
J. Benjamin Townsend, ed. Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place. Albany, 1993, pp. 565, 701 n. 42.
Colleen Laban Makowski. Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md., 1996, pp. 24, 39, 56, 95–96, 107–8, 126, 132, 168, nos. 230, 381, 545, 547, 831, 907, 1055, 1110, 1383.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1893–1967 West Seneca, New York)
ca. 1923
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