Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Lot 410 The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

Country Home in Midsummer

Closed9 May 2018

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USD 348,500

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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Country Home in Midsummer
signed with initials in monogram 'CEB' (lower left)
watercolor and charcoal on paper laid down on board
23 ¼ x 30 in. (59.1 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1951.

Frank K.M. Rehn, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1952.

Specialist note

We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.


In his journal entry dated July 30th, 1951, Charles Burchfield likely referred to the present work, writing, "To country below Dayton (on 18) – painting of an old Gothic House I had seen last August – with heat & insect rhythms Paint until 2:00 – Lunch by road, in shadow of trees which overhung from a woods –" (Journals, vol. 52, p. 116)