Landscape with Small Church

Provenance

The Spiro Family Collection, New York, New York
Private collection, New York, New York

Related Works

Baptist Church, charcoal on paper, 27¾ x 19 ⅝ inches, monogrammed lower left: CEB / 1920; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York

Landscape with a Church, 1954, black ink over charcoal on off-white wove paper, 15¹⁄₁₆ x 19½ inches, monogrammed lower right: CEB / 1954; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Note

Charles Burchfield’s drawings reveal his “feeling for pattern and rhythm, his ability to compose, simplify, and on occasion to abstract—and above all, his wonderful and unique gift of interpreting the elements and seasons.”[1] Through drawings such as Landscape with Small Church, we can follow Burchfield’s development of ideas and his original, highly inventive style.
[1] Charles Burchfield, Leona E. Prasse, Print Club of Cleveland, and Cleveland Museum of Art, The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield : Catalogue of an Exhibition Sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4 to December 31, 1953, the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953), 6.