May Morning, 1915

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.32 × 22.86 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Laura T. Magnuson)

Accession Number

2015.19.2816

Artists / Makers

Charles Burchfield (artist) American, 1893 - 1967

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Chas Burchfield / May 1915; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: May 1915

Provenance

Martha Burchfield (daughter of the artist), West Seneca, New York; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York); private collection, New York; (Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York); (Hull Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hull Gallery
Kraushaar Galleries
Sid Deutsch Gallery

Exhibition History

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

1982: Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 2

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 56-57, no. 32, repro

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 186, no. 1258.