Charles Ephraim Burchfield (aka Charles E. Burchfield)
American, 1893–1967
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                   
                    
                        
                    
                    
                        
                    
                        		
In the late 1940s when this work was painted, Charles Burchfield was engaged in painting the environments of "Middle America"—the small city streets lined with houses, and industrial landscapes bordered by woodlands or fields, These places were familar to him as he lived at the time in upstate New York, near Buffalo, and these places formed his personal experience and environment. His realistic style described the the mood of the common man, living anonymous lives in suburbia. Lifke many of his works, this watercolor contrasts the geometries of suburbia with the natural forms of trees, grasses, and a fence that seems to enclose nature and separate two distinct worlds.
                    
                
            American, 1893–1967
Rural Landscape
1947
                            Object Type:
                            Painting
                        
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            Creation Place:
                            North America, American
                        
                    
                    
                       
                            Dimensions:
                       
                        21 1/2  x 17 1/8 in. (54.61  x 43.5 cm)
                            Medium and Support:
                            Watercolor on paper
                        
                    
					
                    
                        
                            Accession Number:
                            2017.0007.0002
                        
                    
					
                            Credit Line:
                            Gift of Babette L. Wampold in memory of Charles H. Wampold
                        
                    
					
					  
					
                    
                    
                        In the late 1940s when this work was painted, Charles Burchfield was engaged in painting the environments of "Middle America"—the small city streets lined with houses, and industrial landscapes bordered by woodlands or fields, These places were familar to him as he lived at the time in upstate New York, near Buffalo, and these places formed his personal experience and environment. His realistic style described the the mood of the common man, living anonymous lives in suburbia. Lifke many of his works, this watercolor contrasts the geometries of suburbia with the natural forms of trees, grasses, and a fence that seems to enclose nature and separate two distinct worlds.
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