Cleveland Museum of Art
Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)
Charles BurchfieldLinkedCulture matchlcp-2aa6e662fb84
- Date
- January 1917
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, blue and orange crayons, and black wash on wove paper
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 131996
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this drawing, the gray and brown tones of a row of houses are interrupted by the bright green and yellow of a discarded Christmas tree. The work was created in the same year as Church Bells Ringing , where a Christmas tree visible through a window was meant to contrast the work’s foreboding mood. This earlier image similarly suggests Burchfield’s passion for his favorite holiday, which he saw as a symbol of goodness. Christmas trees recurred throughout Burchfield's work around this time.
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- Credit line
- Anonymous gift in memory of Henry G. Keller
- Provenance
- Henry Keller [1869-1949], Cleveland, Ohio | 1954: Louise M. Dunn [1875-1962], gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1954-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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