Exhibition Walkthrough: Heat Waves in a Swamp, December 2009
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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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Charles Burchfield, Black Iron, 1935Watercolor on paper, 28 1/8 x 40 in. (71.1 x 101.6 cm). Private collection. -
Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946-1955Watercolor 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. -
Charles Burchfield, Sun and Rocks, 1918-50Watercolor and gouache on paper. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1953. -
Charles Burchfield, Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring), 1950Watercolor on paper. Collection Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959.6.6. Photo by Gary Mamay. -
Charles Burchfield, The Insect Chorus, 1917Opaque 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. -
Charles Burchfield, Two Ravines, 1934-1943Watercolor on paper. Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gift of the Benwood Foundation. Photo by James Madden, 204 Studios.
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.
