Charles Burchfield's painted memories

Magazine Antiques, March, 1997 by Nannette V. Maciejunes, Norine S. Hendricks

7 Letter from Burchfield to Alice MacMillan, January 9, 1945, as cited in the Salem News, April 13, 1993.

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 Burchfield journals, vol. 27, entry for March 30, 1916.

13 Quoted from Burchfield's autobiographical manuscript "Life and Career," pp. 13-15, as cited in John I. H. Bauer, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 (University of Delaware Press, Newark, 1982). p. 57.

14 Quoted in CB, His Golden Year: a Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils and Graphics by Charles Burchfield (University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, 1965), p. 20.

15 "On the Middle Border," p. 28.

16 CB, His Golden Year, p. 20.

17 Quoted in John I. H. Baur, Charles Burchfield (Macmillan, New York, 1956), p. 88, Fig. 2.

18 "Memories," vol. 1, n.p. (Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, on deposit at Kennedy Galleries, New York City).

19 Quoted in Baur, Charles Burchfield, p. 98, Fig. 13.

20 Burchfield reread Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while in the army and later during a hospital stay in 1959, the same year he had received a new copy of the book for his sixty-sixth birthday (see his journal entry for April 9, 1959, as cited in Charles Burchfield's Journals, p. 152).

21 July 27, as cited in ibid., p. 189.

22 See Jonathan Fineberg, "The Innocent Eye," Art News, vol. 94, no. 4 (April 1995), pp. 118-125.

23 Marit Werenskiold, "Kandinsky's Moscow," Art in America, vol. 77, no. 3 (March 1989), pp. 96-111.

24 Quoted in Baur, Charles Burchfield, p. 133. Fig. 52.

25 Quoted in ibid., p. 128, Fig. 45.

26 See Mary Mowbray-Clarke, Drawings in Water-color by Charles Burchfield (Kevorkian Galleries, New York City, 1920).

27 We would like to thank Christopher Duckworth and James Richards for bringing this important connection to our attention. We also want to thank Elena Sarikelle for her diligent research into this and other points in this article.

28 Joseph B. McCullough, Hamlin Garland (Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1978), p. 110.

29 (Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1928), p. 416. A Son of the Middle Border was first published in 1917, and was the first of four books in Garland's Middle Border series.

30 "On the Middle Border," p. 25.

31 Quoted in Baur, Charles Burchfield, p. 110, Fig. 25.

32 Quoted in Michael Kammen, Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture (University of Texas, Austin, 1992), p. 154.

33 The photograph, taken by PhiLip C. Elliott, was published in "Burchfield's Buffalo," Art News, vol. 43 (May 1, 1944), pp. 12-13.

34 Kenneth L. Ames, "Of Times, Places, and Old Houses," in Nanette V. Maciejunes, Michael D. Hall, et al., The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997), p. 51.

35 May 31, 1947, as cited in Charles Burchfield's Journals p. 510.

36 Kammen, Meadows of Memory, p. 141.

NANNETTE V. MACIEJUNES is a senior curator at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio.

NORINE S. HENDRICKS is the assistant curator for exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art.