Elizabeth Meyer
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Sold for US$22,500 inc. premium
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Provenance
Private collection, New York.
By descent to the present owner, 1999.
On March 9, 1917, Charles Burchfield recorded the following observation in his journal:
"A morning with the peculiar blk haze coming down from the Zenith – Horizon strangely white – sky & roofs same tone leaving houses in fragments. Anything with a tower is a huge overpowering blk thing with a livid white edge— & buildings in front of it are in fear.
Noon – hazy layer sky -, melted snow on mud-snow forms vivid bizarre patterns on ruts & turf – A feeling as if all at once things are going to change and a new world introduced, yet it never does —
A rare sunset, as on a hot August evening, the melted snow & mud freezes slightly; the sky is wet' a dense brown haze fills the air making objects strangely elusive —"
Accompanying this lot is a detailed research report completed by The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, dated October 2016.