Live Auction 19846American Art
CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Lot 249 Property from the Collection of Mrs. Stanton Armour, Lake Forest, Illinois

CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

Rocks and Stumps

Closed18 May 2021

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USD 75,000

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CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Rocks and Stumps
signed and dated 'Chas Burchfield/1918—' (lower right)—dated again 'April 14, 1918' and inscribed 'The Cave' (on the reverse)
watercolor and charcoal on paper
24 3⁄4 x 17 3⁄4 in. (62.8 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed in 1918.

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note


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

According to Weekly, the artist's inscription on the back of the present work reading "The Cave" may reflect a change of heart over the original title, Rocks and Stumps. The artist made a note to his sister identifying the location as Schilling's Mill, which was likely near his hometown of Salem, Ohio.