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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Sunrise Over the Little Beaver Valley

Sunrise Over the Little Beaver Valley

1915
(American, 1893–1967)
Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Location: not on view

Description

Burchfield produced this evocative pencil and ink drawing on July 18, 1915. At the time, he was on summer break from his studies at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art), which he attended from 1912 to 1916. The notes about color scribbled on this drawing indicate that Burchfield must have considered it a study for a painting. The lines radiating from the sun and casting intense shadows along the trees suggest the baking heat of a summer’s day.
  • Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age", no exhibition catalogue.
    Charles Burchfield Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art (January 11-February 26, 1956); The Baltimore Museum of Art (March 14-April 22, 1956); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (May 9-June 17, 1956); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 11-August 19, 1956); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 5-October 14, 1956); The Phillips Collection (November 4-December 11, 1956); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 28, 1956-February 10, 1957).
    The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1953-January 10, 1954).
  • {{cite web|title=Sunrise Over the Little Beaver Valley|url=false|author=Charles Burchfield|year=1915|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1953.576