Charles Burchfield
Gateway to September
1946-1956
watercolor on paper
Collection of Hunter Museum of American Art
Gift of the Benwood Foundation
HMAA.1976.3.6 | Charles Burchfield: The Seasons
March 2 - June 1, 2008
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was an extraordinary landscape artists working in the first half of the 20th century. A new exhibition, Charles Burchfield: The Seasons, will be on view at the Hunter Museum from March 1 to June 1, 2008.
The Hunter is fortunate to own several important paintings by Burchfield and these works serve as the basis of the exhibition.
Burchfield created large watercolor paintings of the woods, fields and small towns near his Ohio home and filled them with imagery that seems to vibrate and hum with the intensity of his vision.
The show is organized by Chief Curator Ellen Simak who chose nearly 30 watercolors and drawings from the Hunter Museum collection, other museums and the Burchfield estate holdings of D.C. Moore Gallery that closely relate to themes and motifs in the Hunter works. |
Walter Anderson
Sleeping Cats in the Woods
undated
watercolor on paper
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Courtesy of the Family of Walter Anderson | Ecstasy: The Mystical Landscapes of Walter Anderson
March 2 - June 8
Walter Anderson painted jewel-like, expressionistic watercolors of his beloved Mississippi Gulf Coast. Like Charles Burchfield, Anderson worked outside the conventions of the art world in a style that expressed his intense love for and close observation of the natural world. Ecstasy, the title of this exhibition, certainly captures Anderson's love for nature and the intensity with which he painted his vision. |
