Watering Time
Artist
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
(American, 1893 - 1967)
CultureAmerican
Date1921
MediumWatercolor and gouache drawing on paper, mounted on board
DimensionsOverall: 28 1/2 x 41 in. (72.4 x 104.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 34 3/4 x 46 1/2 in. (88.3 x 118.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 34 3/4 x 46 1/2 in. (88.3 x 118.1 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right: CE BURCHFIELD
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.626
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a watercolor and gouache on five pieces of paper mounted on board. It illustrates two barns next to each other and three horses feeding in the foreground, to the left of center. A rooster sits on top of a haystack by the barn on the left. A change in the weather is indicated by the weather vane on top of the barn on the right; large dark clouds roll into the painting from the right side.Label TextCharles Burchfield American, 1893–1967 Watering Time, 1921 Watercolor and gouache drawing on paper, mounted on board This is among Charles Burchfield’s most experimental works. He mixed a variety of media, including watercolor, gouache, and possibly other materials. Burchfield enlarged the composition by attaching additional sheets to the top and sides of the painting. The finished result is a visionary depiction of a humble farmyard, a subject that was increasingly removed from modern American life, even by the 1920s. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.626 ProvenanceMontross; Spencer Kellogg, Jr.; Gift of Mr. Kellogg to Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Ca.; Museum Art Exchange, New York, Ny., 1969; Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Ma., 1969-1971; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., 1971. Exhibition History"Two Hundred Years of American Painting," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Ca., 1961. "The Twenties Revisited," The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, Ny., June 29 - September 6, 1965. "Charles Burchfield, His Golden Year: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors, Oil, and Graphics," The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Az., Nov. 14, 1965 - Jan. 9, 1966. "Charles Burchfield: Memorial Exhibition," Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, Ny., April 9 - May 31, 1970, 102, no. 678. "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Drawn from the Vault: Collecting American Works on Paper at the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - July 27, 2014. "Watercolor: An American Medium," Photography Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, February 21 - June 23, 2019.Published ReferencesWilliam B. M'Cormick, "A Small Town in Paint," _International Studio_ 80, no. 334 (March 1925): 466-470, 467 ill. Milton W. Brown, "The Early Realism of Hopper and Burchfield," _College Art Journal_ 7 (Autumn 1947): 3-11. Milton Brown, _American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression_ (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1955), 173-181, illustrated. Also reprinted in 1972, page 178. _Two Hundred Years of American Painting: Commemorating the opening of the Preston Morton Wing and the Museum's Twentieth Anniversary, 1941-1961_, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1961, no. 69. _The Twenties Revisited_, exh. cat., The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, Ny., 1965, in the "Midwest" section. _Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections_, exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, Ny., 1970, 102, no. 678. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 187.
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