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- DEC 06 SUN
- December 6 2009, 01:00pm
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Heat Waves in a Swamp: Exhibition Walkthrough
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Charles Burchfield
Black Iron
1935
Watercolor on paper, 28 1/8 x 40 in. (71.1 x 101.6 cm). Private collection.
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Charles Burchfield
An April Mood
1946-1955
Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase, with partial funds from Mr. And Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman. Photo by Geoffrey Clements.
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Charles Burchfield
Sun and Rocks
1918-50
Watercolor and gouache on paper. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1953.
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Charles Burchfield
Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring)
1950
Watercolor on paper. Collection Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959.6.6. Photo by Gary Mamay.
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Charles Burchfield
The Insect Chorus
1917
Opaque and transparent watercolor with ink, graphite, and crayon on off-white paper. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York. Edward W. Root bequest, 1957.
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Charles Burchfield
Two Ravines
1934-1943
Watercolor on paper. Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gift of the Benwood Foundation. Photo by James Madden, 204 Studios.
Heat Waves in a Swamp: Exhibition Walkthrough
Artist James Welling will lead a walkthrough of Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield.
James Welling has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Welling's books include Light Sources, Flowers, and James Welling Photographs 1974-99. In 2004, Welling produced the feature film Easy which screened in Dramatic Competition at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He received his MFA and BFA from California Institute of the Arts and is currently a professor in the UCLA Department of Art.
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The exhibition is made possible by The Joy and Jerry Monkarsh Family Foundation.
Major support is provided by the LLWW Foundation and Lynda and Stewart Resnick. It is also realized through the generosity of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, George Freeman, The Straus Family Fund, Rosette Varda Delug, Booth Heritage Foundation, The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, and the Robert Lehman Foundation.
The catalogue is published with the assistance of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
This exhibition is organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College.
Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.
Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.
