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Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Gates Down, 1920

Description

Maker

Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 1893-1967, American, designer

Title

Gates Down

Year

1920

Medium

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

gouache,
watercolor

Supports

Smooth medium weight machine made wove paper.

Dimensions

45.9 x 60.8 cm (18 1/16 x 23 15/16 inches)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Una Hunt Drage

Object Number

51.505

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Architecture of Painting

Charles Burchfield

Exhibition History

Tradition and Innovation in American Watercolors

January 27 - April 11, 1999

For several years after serving in the US Army, Burchfield's work expressed a more somber note as he turned from depicting nature to documenting the landscape of American towns, often portraying their empty, alienated qualities. Among the industrial subjects painted at this time is Gates Down, a view of the snowy Pennsylvania Railroad crossing in his hometown of Salem, Ohio.

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

Selection 1

December 30, 1971 - January 23, 1972

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