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100 1 Weekly, Nancy.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n92012945
245 10 Charles E. Burchfield :|bthe sacred woods /|cby Nancy
Weekly.
264 1 Albany :|bState University of New York Press,|c[1993]
264 4 |c©1993
300 1 online resource (120 pages) :|billustrations (some
color)
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500 "Corporate sponsorship by Marine Midland Bank, N.A.,
Foundation sponsorship by the Charles E. Burchfield
Foundation, Inc., and the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation;
public sponsorship by the New York State Council on the
Arts."
500 The Drawing Center, New York, New York, June 15-July 30,
1993 and others.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114).
506 |3Use copy|fRestrictions unspecified|2star|5MiAaHDL
520 Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods explores the
underlying spirituality of American painter Charles E.
Burchfield (1893-1967). Author Nancy Weekly, the Charles
Cary Rumsey Curator of the Burchfield Art Center, traces
the evolution of his art and philosophical fluctuations.
She identifies his affinity for developments in 19th
century art and literature, including pantheism, luminism,
romanticism, and transcendentalism. The book celebrates
the 100th anniversary of Burchfield's birth. It is
complemented by 40 color plates and 60 black and white
illustrations.
520 8 Burchfield was born in 1893 in Ashtabula, Ohio, and grew
up in Salem, Ohio, which is depicted in youthful studies
of nature, painted until he graduated from the Cleveland
School of Art in 1916. His early work shares decorative
compositional qualities with 19th century Japanese
woodblock prints and reveals the influence of prevalent
pantheistic philosophies and the literature of American
authors, such as Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and
Ralph Waldo Emerson. During 1917, which Burchfield called
his "golden year," he exaggerated nature's sounds and
movements in synesthetic, animated fantasies and invented
a highly personal set of symbols he called "Conventions
for Abstract Thoughts" to represent dreaded human emotions
such as fear and morbidness.
520 8 Surprisingly, during the 1920s when Burchfield still
harbored the doubts of his youthful apostasy, he produced
a small number of prints, drawings, and paintings based on
Biblical subjects. After designing wallpapers for the M.H.
Birge & Sons Company in Buffalo, New York from 1921 to
1929, the artist resigned to devote himself fully to his
painting, encouraged by Frank K.M. Rehn of New York, who
offered to be his art dealer. Burchfield became known as a
painter of the American Scene, the champion of
unpretentious small town life, as well as the urban
documentarian who recorded the ennui of a man-made
landscape, often being compared with his Rehn Gallery
colleague, Edward Hopper.
520 8 Dissatisfied with painting realistically, Burchfield
returned in the 1940s to his fanciful style of 1917 and
expanded old ideas, even the actual paintings themselves,
into larger and more meaningful interpretations of nature.
A lifetime of spiritual soul-searching and self-doubt, the
recurrence of serious illnesses, and the steady
persuasiveness of his wife, Bertha, led to Burchfield's
eventual adoption of the Lutheran faith in 1943-44.
Autobiographical, romantic landscapes of this period
contain his symbols for man's place in the universal
scheme.
520 8 Majestic, transcendental evocations of the power of nature
characterize the last decade of Burchfield's works. The
pinnacle of Burchfield's aspirations is evidenced in his
concept of a Mystic North, an imaginary, legendary place
of deep mystery and elusive tranquility that he found in
the secluded woods of the Western New York countryside.
This, coupled with significant childhood memories provided
hope for eternal peacefulness and serenity in paintings
that are truly visionary. In April 1964, Burchfield wrote,
" ... [I] will always be searching [for] the ultimate
statement. It is better so. The search for a truth is
better than the realization. North is an arbitrary term -
It is the Pole that my imagination yearns for - "
533 Electronic reproduction.|b[S.l.] :|cHathiTrust Digital
Library,|d2010.|5MiAaHDL
538 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs
and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation,
December 2002.|uhttp://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
Collection - North America
600 10 Burchfield, Charles,|d1893-1967|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n79135019|vExhibitions.|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
600 14 Burchfield, Charles Ephraim,|d1893-1967.
600 17 Burchfield, Charles,|d1893-1967.|2fast|0https://
id.worldcat.org/fast/46050
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 Exhibition catalogs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
1424028
655 7 Exhibition catalogs.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/genreForms/gf2014026098
710 2 Burchfield Art Center.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n88074193
710 2 State University of New York at Albany.|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81037028
710 2 Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n79052683
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWeekly, Nancy.|tCharles E. Burchfield.
|dAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©1993
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