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To call this journal epic would be an understatement. A masterpiece whose bulk has remained unread, it is a handwritten tome that combines elements of the American nature journal with a dash of 19th-century spiritual autobiography. It is a record of a man who spent much of his life looking at and considering the sky. In this comparatively small selection pulled from the original 62 volumes, we find Burchfield writing about sitting in the grass with his wife to nap and watch the sunset. He writes about the elation he feels at seeing the first flowers in the spring. He writes about the rain, wind and sun. There’s the resentment of having a job; the depression that sneaks in as he gets older; sometimes, too, he writes about the state of human progress; and occasionally, thoughts about God. It is the tender record of a life devoted to the essences of earthly beauty. Best known for his romantic, often fantastic depictions of nature, watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) developed a unique style of watercolor painting that reflected distinctly American subjects and his profound respect for nature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753516179729,"sku":"NGR9781734035148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51049031991569,"sku":"NIN9781734035148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51768318689553,"sku":"CIN1734035145VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126445371665,"sku":"NLS9781734035148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1734035145.jpg?v=1750801194"},{"product_id":"charles-burchfield-book-charles-burchfield-9780982631638","title":"Charles Burchfield","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50945264517393,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50945264779537,"sku":"CIN0982631634G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0982631634.jpg?v=1751235695"},{"product_id":"charles-burchfield-s-journals-book-charles-burchfield-9780791409916","title":"Charles Burchfield's Journals","description":"The personal journals of Charles Burchfield reveal the unique vision and approach to life that established him as America's preeminent watercolorist and painter of nature.  When he died in 1967 at the age of seventy-three, Burchfield had filled sixty-seven bound notebooks with his personal entries, comprising some 10,000 pages.  He included sketches, doodles, quotations, clippings, weather notes, and other marginalia and insertions offering a rare glimpse into the artist's life.  Presented here in book form, the edited journals are organized thematically.    The editor's introductions place each section in biographical and art historial context.   The material is annotated and informed by the previously unpublished archives of the Burchfield Art Center, and complemented by 41 color plates of Burchfield's paintings and 131 black and white illustrations.  These journals constitute a full, detailed history of an American artist's life, presenting a culmination of two major literary genres:  the nineteenth century spiritual autobiography and the American nature journal.  Burchfield's notes feature the activities, daily sketching trips, nature observations, personal encounters, artistic growth, and the religious conflicts of a major American artist. Beginning with the summer before his third year in high school and continuing up to nine months before his death, the journals are as complete a record of Burchfield's thoughts and career as Delacroix's journals or Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo are of theirs.  Burchfield was born in 1893 in Ashtabula, Ohio, and grew up in Salem, a small town in the northeast section of the state.  He received his art training at the Cleveland School of Art.  After a year's tour of duty in the Army, he moved to Buffalo, New York and went to work as Assistant Designer and later Director of the design department of M. H. Birge and Sons Wallpaper Company.  When in 1929 Frank K. M. Rehn of New York offered to become his art dealer, Burchfield resigned from Birge in order to devote himself fully to painting. Over the years his accomplishments included one-person exhibitions in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art,  Carnegie Museum of Art, and Corcoran Gallery of Art.  Among the awards he received were the Chancellor's medal from the University of Buffalo, the Merit medal (gold) from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Dawson Memorial Medal,  the Metropolitan Museum of Art watercolor award, and a doctorate of Fine Arts from Harvard University.  In 1966 the Charles Burchfield Center was dedicated at Buffalo State College.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51694691582225,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694692729105,"sku":"CIN0791409910G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53160601321745,"sku":"CIN0791409910VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791409910.jpg?v=1750883082"},{"product_id":"charles-burchfield-1920-the-architecture-of-painting-book-charles-burchfield-9780981525051","title":"Charles Burchfield 1920: The Architecture of Painting","description":"One of the great American Modernist artists, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) is often associated with the romantic nature fantasies he produced in his later years, but his earliest engagements with Modernism are often overlooked. In \u003ci\u003eCharles Burchfield 1920: The Architecture of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, the importance of this phase is examined for the first time. Assembling a tight group of Burchfield's watercolors, it highlights works executed between 1918 and 1920, which depict the stark houses and industrial landscapes of Burchfield's Salem, Ohio. These watercolors employ certain hallmarks of Modernist pictorial strategy, such as flattened space, reductive simplicity and industrial themes, but without the crisp Precisionism of a Demuth or a Sheeler--rather they convey Burchfield's simultaneous engagement with Folk Art and Expressionism. By positioning this period as integral to (rather than anomalous within) the trajectory of Burchfield's career, the insights of authors Michael Hall, Nannette Maciejunes and Karli Wurzelbacher here provide a richer understanding of Burchfield's art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53522097537297,"sku":"NLS9780981525051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780981525051.jpg?v=1778456909"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-charles-burchfield.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}