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Charles Burchfield: Elemental
Ten watercolors from the Whitney's collection, spanning 1916–1960, tracing Charles Burchfield's visionary, lifelong reverence for natural phenomena — from flowering meadows to dramatic storms.
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In Cricket Chorus in the Arbor, from 1917, you won't find a single cricket. Burchfield painted their sound instead, as rows of repeated black marks in the foliage, with deep shadows and sunlit clouds behind. He made it during what he called his "golden years", painting before and after his day job at a machine parts company in Salem, Ohio.
It is one of ten watercolors from the Whitney's own collection, made between 1916 and 1960, of meadows, storms and turning seasons. They are light-sensitive and rarely shown together, and the show marks 70 years since the Whitney's 1956 Burchfield retrospective. He worked big and slow: An April Mood is 54 inches wide, and Overhanging Cloud in July took him twelve years.
It opens October 22. Admission is $30, $24 for seniors and students, and free for visitors 25 and under, on Friday nights from 5 to 10pm and on second Sundays. The Whitney is closed Tuesdays.
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Cricket Chorus in the Arbor (1917)
Look for the crickets' hum drawn as repeated black patterns in a thick hedge at sunset, with deep shadows in front and sunlit clouds behind.
An April Mood (1946–55)
Clusters of three old maples under a dark sky Burchfield called an "April frown", with yellow-tipped growth just breaking through the winter ground.
Overhanging Cloud in July (1947–59)
A sheet about a metre tall with yellow dashes and lines across the sky, which the photographer James Welling reads as a force field of summer heat.
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- Charles Burchfield: ElementalReproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation and the Burchfield Penney Art Center
- Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA – i nieskończona linia (Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA—And the Infinite Line)Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
- David Lamelas: The MachineJoeyvandernaald, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- David Byrne: Rysunki na klatce schodowej (David Byrne: Stairwell Drawings)David Byrne / Pace Gallery
- Whitney Museum of American ArtBeyond My Ken, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- David ZwirnerCourtesy David Zwirner
- Hauser & WirthJim.henderson, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dia ChelseaFound5dollar, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pace GalleryPace Gallery