Charles Burchfield: American Master of Watercolor Paintings
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Although he lived next door to Niagara Falls, artist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today.
Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings -- his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature.
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