PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT MIDWEST COLLECTION

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
View Southeast of Emporium (Village by a Mountainside)
signed with initials in monogram and dated 'CEB/1941' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on joined paper laid down on board
32 x 27 in. (81.3 x 68.6 cm.)
Executed in 1941.

PROVENANCE
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York.
Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, Buffalo, New York.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Evans Family, Johnstown, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Christie's, New York, 4 December 2003, lot 101, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.


EXHIBITED
New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Exhibition by Charles Burchfield, October 20-November 8, 1941.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four American Watercolorists: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Charles E. Burchfield, Adolf Dehn, October 1943-May 1944.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The Middle Years: Charles Ephraim Burchfield: 1929-1950, 1978, no. 36, illustrated (as Southeast of Emporium).
New York, Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., Japanism in American Art, May 1-June 13, 2003.


LITERATURE
E.A. Jewell, "American Painting," Creative Art, November 1931, vol. 9, pp. 365-66, illustrated.
"Charles Burchfield's Water Colors [at the Rehn Galleries]," The New York Times, February 11, 1934, n.p.
C.E. Burchfield, The Drawings of Charles Burchfield, New York, 1968, pp. 7-8.
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: A Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 194, no. 952.