Charles Burchfield “The Nature of Seeing”
DC Moore Gallery
[Image: Charles Burchfield "Chestnut Trees" (1916) Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper, mounted on board. 20 x 13 7/8 in.]
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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) had an intensely personal, spiritualized view of the world. As highlighted by the exceptional group of watercolors and drawings in this exhibition, he was a keen observer of his surroundings, depicting scenes with which he was familiar, often imbuing them with a visionary sensibility that was deeply felt.
In both his life and art, Burchfield saw the universal in the particular, and nothing was too small or insignificant to capture his attention. He felt strongly that his identity as an artist was bound up with his relation to nature. “I feel impelled to embrace the earth,” he wrote in his journals. On another day spent in the fields and woods, he found that, “My spirit was in complete harmony with the world of nature and absorbed every sight and sound with a completeness that has not been my lot for many a month.”
DC Moore Gallery is the exclusive representative of The Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.
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from May 01, 2015 to June 13, 2015