Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield June 24–October 17, 2010 at the Whitney

Artist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) at the Whitney curated by artist Robert Gober, featuring over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist Artist Charles Burchfield.

Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his own lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated and noticeable absent from today’s art scene. He worked almost exclusively in watercolor, and although he lived next door to Niagara Falls,he to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet .

Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, and the experience of entering a forest at dusk.

He would often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature.

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield June 24–October 17, 2010. The Whitney is located at 945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.New York, NY 10021 phone (212) 570-3600. Galleries are open 11 am–6 pm General admission $18.

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