Charles Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967)

                                                                        

Moon and Thunderhead

1960

Charles Burchfield is an amazing and absolutely unique painter, who developed a very singular style: often  representing long periods of time (hours, days, seasons) within a single frame, expressing light and motion in symbolic rather than realistic fashion and, of course, turning to a child's vision of the world. Burchfield was highly admired during his lifetime, a period when abstraction was far more the mode; he was, most notably, revered by the equally talented painter Edward Hopper. Was there and will there be anything really like him?

Sunlight in Forest

1916

Moon and Thunderhead

1960

Lavendar and Old Lace

1939-1947