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Title:Clover Field in June
Artist:Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1893–1967 West Seneca, New York)
Date:1947
Medium:Watercolor on paper
Dimensions:39 3/4 × 28 3/4 in. (101 × 73 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1948
Object Number:48.35.1
Inscription: Signed and dated: (lower left) C/B/ 1947
the artist, Gardenville, N.Y. (until 1948; sold through the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York to MMA)
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Charles Burchfield," October 6–November 1, 1947, no. 3.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "1948 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings," January 31–March 21, 1948, no. 87.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. AWS 10.
Valparaiso, Ind. Valparaiso University. "Charles Burchfield: The Later Years, 1944–1967," February 10–March 2, 1976, no catalogue (checklist no. 9).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Juliana Force's Selections for The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 1–May 11, 1980, no catalogue.
New York. Drawing Center. "Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods," June 15–July 30, 1993, unnumbered cat. (fig. 29).
Saint Paul. Minnesota Museum of Art. "Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods," September 10–November 14, 1993, unnumbered cat.
Buffalo, N. Y. Burchfield-Penney Art Center. "Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods," December 11, 1993–February 6, 1994, unnumbered cat.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Hunter Museum of American Art. "Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods," April 3–May 22, 1994, unnumbered cat.
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. 167).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," June 24–October 17, 2010, unnumbered cat.
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: Alterations in Progress." New Yorker (October 18, 1947), p. 97.
Howard Devree. "Among New Shows; Burchfield and Other Water-Colorists—Work by Several Modernists." New York Times (October 12, 1947), p. X9, calls it "Clover Field".
Robert Beverly Hale. "American Painting 1754–1954." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (March 1954), ill. p. 187.
Betty Schenck inArt USA Now. Ed. Lee Nordness. New York, 1963, vol. 1, between 62–63 and pp. 64, 226, fig. 3.
Joseph S. Trovato, ed. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica, N. Y., 1970, p. 222, no. 1016, ill.
J. Benjamin Townsend, ed. Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place. Albany, 1993, pp. 67, 669 n. 23, colorpl. XVIII.
Guy Davenport. Charles Burchfield's Seasons. San Francisco, 1994, pp. VIII–IX, fig. 19.
Colleen Laban Makowski. Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md., 1996, pp. 21–22, 38, 49, 118, 157, 168, nos. 208, 372, 488, 993, 1312, 1383, calls it "Clover Fields in June".
Holland Cotter. "Nature, Up Close and Personal." New York Times (June 25, 2010), p. C26.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio 1893–1967 West Seneca, New York)
ca. 1923
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