Early Morning
Charles Ephraim Burchfield, American, 1893 - 1967
1925
Conté crayon and brush and ink over graphite on two sheets (joined) of heavy newsprint mounted by artist on thin cardboard, then mounted on tertiary support
Sheet: 14 7/16 × 8 7/8 in. (36.7 × 22.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
D.963.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: CEB [monogram] / 1925
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Winter 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
An American Visionary: Watercolors and Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield, Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, no. 58, March 20-May 16, 1986; The New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, Connecticut, June 8-July 20, 1986; The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, January 9-February 15, 1987; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, February 22-March 29, 1987.
Contemporary Paintings, Fall 1962, Park Lane Gallery, Buffalo, New York, no. 8, 1962.
Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.
Honoring Reunion Classes, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-June, 19 1977.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 23, 39, 150, 264-265, ill. p. 151, no. 45.
Provenance
The artist; sold to Frank M. Rehn Gallery, New York; sold to G Contemporary Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1962 (renamed James Goodman Gallery in 1963); sold to present collection, 1963.
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