Cliff Dwellers

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CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Burchfield, C.E.
Cliff Dwellers
bears artist's estate stamp 'C.E. Burchfield Foundation*' and 'B-440' (lower right)
mixed media on joined paper laid down on board
39 x 54 in. (99.1 x 137.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1920 and after 1944.

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1992.

Literature

Tampa Bay Times, May 23, 2004, p. 3E.

Exhibited

Sarasota, Florida, Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, 2003.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Modernism, November 19, 2003-November 14, 2004, pp. 38, 68, no. 10, illustrated.
Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art, American Modernism, January 8-February 27, 2011.

Further Details

We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

Sale Room Notice

Please note the date for this lot has been amended as follows: Executed circa 1920 and after 1944.

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Lot Essay

The present work depicts East Liverpool, Ohio, where Charles Burchfield visited in 1920. Some of the same structures included in Cliff Dwellers can be seen in his Pippin House, East Liverpool, Ohio of 1920 (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Begun circa 1920, the present work was later enlarged by the artist, likely after 1944.

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