© The Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, Inc.
Currently not on view
Winter Rain from the East,
1940
Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 1893–1967; born Ashtabula Harbor, OH; died West Seneca, NY
x1962-5
In his effort to develop a distinctly American modern painting style, Burchfield chose to evoke the quiet isolation of rural communities marginalized in the nation’s headlong rush toward modernity in the 1930s and ’40s. Broadly painted in ghostly tones of gray and brown, Burchfield’s watercolors of obsolete farms and forgotten towns on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York—where the artist lived and worked—capture a poignant sense of loneliness.
Information
Title
Winter Rain from the East
Dates
1940
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
45.8 x 63.7 cm (18 1/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of James H. Beal, Class of 1920, and Mrs. Beal
Object Number
x1962-5
Place Depicted
United States, New York, Gardenville
Signatures
Artist monogram and dated in crayon, lower right: CEB | 1940
Culture
Type
Materials
See files for copy of letter from Mr. Burchfield to Mrs. Beal.;
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 203, cat. no. 50; p. 205 (illus.); p. 346, checklist no. 957
