Live Auction 2444Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Lot 4 Property of the Owego Apalachin Central School District

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

In the Deep Woods

Closed18 May 2011

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USD 60,000

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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
In the Deep Woods
signed and dated 'C Burchfield/1918' (lower right)--dated again 'May 26, 1918' (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
25 x 18 in. (63.5 x 45.7 cm.)

Sale: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, War Assets Administration, 19 June 1948, lot 87.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work has been requested for the 2012-2014 traveling exhibition, Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, organized by Mark A. White, Ph.D. and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.