People named Charles Burchfield

Charles L Burchfield of Portland, Clackamas County, OR was born on February 19, 1923, and died at age 83 years old on March 6, 2006.

Charles V Burchfield of Cleveland, Bradley County, TN was born on December 28, 1922, and died at age 72 years old in November 1995.

Charles L Burchfield of Middlesboro, Bell County, KY was born on February 1, 1929, and died at age 74 years old on December 26, 2003.

Charles A Burchfield of Uniontown, Fayette County, PA was born on June 29, 1907, and died at age 85 years old on December 15, 1992.

Charles Burchfield One of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) continues to intrigue and inform the contemporary art world. His intensely personal, spiritualized view of the world resonates with artists who work in a variety of media, and his deeply felt, almost mystical sensibility has inspired curators and artists to revisit and reassess his many accomplishments. In 2009 Robert Gober organized a major retrospective for the Hammer Museum which traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, in 1893, Charles Burchfield grew up in the small town of Salem, in central Ohio. During his youth, he spent countless hours in the nearby woods, developing a deep and life-long empathy for the natural world. In 1912, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art, graduating four years later. While there, he was introduced to major trends in European and American modernism, as well as Chinese and Japanese art, and contemporary design theory. His early work included modernist views of Salem and the surrounding countryside, along with imaginative landscapes grounded in a personal visual language of fantasy. Around 1920, he adopted a more realist approach grounded in the austere imagery of industrial development, and the local architecture of Midwestern cities and towns. In 1921, Burchfield moved to Buffalo, New York, to work as a wallpaper designer for the H. M. Birge Company. He married and started a family, eventually raising four daughters and a son. Around this time, he began to receive critical acclaim for his focus on what he once called the “great epic poetry of American life.” He had several exhibitions at the Montross Gallery in New York starting in 1924. Burchfield gained major national recognition in 1930, when the newly formed Museum of Modern Art organized an exhibition of his early work. It was the first single-artist exhibition held at the museum. A year earlier he had joined the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York, which continued to represent him for the rest of his life. In the early 1940s, Burchfield returned to a bolder, more expressive approach. He was initially inspired to develop what he called “reconstructions” or “two-period pictures,” composites of smaller, early works, mainly from 1917 and 1918, which he enlarged with strips of paper to create grander, more complex compositions. Much of his later work reveals two complementary sides of his artistic personality—from exuberant views of sunlit fields and atmospheric skies to more introspective meditations on the profound depths of nature. By the early 1960s, his paintings were increasingly dreamlike. He continued to paint with his full creative powers until the end of his life. His final exhibition at the Rehn Galleries was in October 1966, three months before he died. Charles Burchfield has been the focus of numerous museum exhibitions, including an exhibition of early watercolors at the Museum of Modern Art in 1930, and retrospectives at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo in 1944, the Whitney Museum of American in 1956, 1980 and 2002, the University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson in 1965, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio in 1997. The latter exhibition, titled The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, traveled to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and was accompanied by a monograph by Nannette Maciejunes and Michael Hall. Burchfield’s work is represented in every major collection of American art in this country.

Charles Edward Burchfield of Spearfish, Lawrence County, SD was born on July 19, 1933, and died at age 76 years old on April 11, 2010. Charles Burchfield was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery Section I Site 236 20901 Pleasant Valley Drive, in Sturgis.

Charles L Burchfield was born on December 30, 1922, and died at age 50 years old on January 28, 1973. Charles Burchfield was buried at Ft. Leavenworth National Cemetery Section P Site 2639 in Fort Leavenworth, Ks. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles L Burchfield.

Charles R Burchfield of Vancouver, Clark County, WA was born on May 16, 1895, and died at age 71 years old on August 15, 1966.

Charles M Burchfield of Fort Collins, Larimer County, CO was born on April 24, 1923, and died at age 69 years old on March 1, 1993.

Charles E Burchfield of Columbia, Boone County, MO was born on December 26, 1929, and died at age 66 years old on May 15, 1996.

Charles Burchfield of Jefferson, Greene County, Iowa was born on April 6, 1902, and died at age 72 years old in March 1975.

Charles Burchfield of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN was born on November 20, 1910, and died at age 88 years old on July 11, 1999.

Charles Burchfield of Crossett, Ashley County, Arkansas was born on October 30, 1922, and died at age 62 years old in October 1984.

Charles P Burchfield of Evansville, Natrona County, WY was born on February 11, 1927, and died at age 61 years old on May 18, 1988.

Charles Burchfield of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama was born on February 12, 1917, and died at age 57 years old in June 1974.

Charles C Burchfield of Maryville, Blount County, TN was born on April 8, 1911, and died at age 86 years old on March 7, 1998.

Charles B Burchfield of Rex, Clayton County, GA was born on November 24, 1919, and died at age 80 years old on June 19, 2000.

Charles B Burchfield was born on March 28, 1886, and died at age 79 years old on June 1, 1965. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles B Burchfield.

Charles Burchfield was born on October 11, 1956, and died at age 21 years old in August 1978. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Burchfield.

Charles Burchfield of Unicoi, Unicoi County, Tennessee was born on April 15, 1923, and died at age 47 years old in August 1970.

Charles Burchfield of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee was born on August 4, 1903, and died at age 70 years old in December 1973.

Charles L Burchfield of Edgewood, Harford County, MD was born on January 17, 1917, and died at age 89 years old on January 6, 2007.

Charles R Burchfield was born on August 16, 1956, and died at age 35 years old on October 19, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles R Burchfield.

Charles Burchfield of Kentucky was born on August 20, 1877, and died at age 85 years old in January 1963.

Charles Burchfield was born on October 13, 1924, and died at age 49 years old in November 1973. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Burchfield.

Charles R Burchfield was born on March 30, 1952, and died at age 44 years old on March 31, 1996. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles R Burchfield.

Charles V Burchfield of Canton, Stark County, OH was born on July 2, 1928, and died at age 76 years old on May 18, 2005.

Charles M Burchfield of Sun City West, Maricopa County, AZ was born on July 29, 1917, and died at age 71 years old on May 17, 1989.

Charles E Burchfield of Xenia, Greene County, Ohio was born on October 23, 1926, and died at age 84 years old on December 21, 2010.