Stormy Day in March

Artist Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, 1893 - 1967)

Date1917-1955

MediumGraphite, oil, and watercolor on paper laid down to panel

DimensionsUnframed: 32 3/4 × 44 3/4 inches (83.19 × 113.67 cm)
Framed: 33 3/8 × 45 1/4 inches (84.77 × 114.94 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. C. Humbert Tinsman Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. James E. C. Tinsman in memory of C. Humbert and Julia Tinsman

Object number2002.12.2

SignedInitialed lower right on recto

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American Art

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DescriptionThis large, nearly abstract composition features a variety of landscape elements (trees, foliage, sky, and grass), all painted with energetic lines. The composition is predominantly brown and gray, accentuated will limited passages of brighter color, including yellow and purple.Gallery Label

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Charles Burchfield is best known for his large-scale watercolors of moody, foreboding places. In Stormy Day in March, he depicted a landscape beset by threatening weather. Typically, all forms of nature--clouds, lightening, and vegetation--appear interconnected through the artist's agitated mark making. Involving multiple sheets of paper fixed together over many years, Burchfield's working method mirrored nature itself, which is similarly in a state of continuous evolution.

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