Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Portrait Study (Posed for by My Mother), 1917; watercolor on paper, 25 x 18 1/2 inches (Frame: 28 5/8 x 21 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches); Gift of the Retired Alumni Association, Inc, 1975
Charles Burchfield emerged (as President Lyndon Johnson eulogized him) as an "artist to America," due to the clear-eyed landscapes of his early watercolors to the transcendental interpretations of nature embodied in his later paintings.
