James J. Vullo (1914-1999), Carnival Mosaic, 1951; gouache on paper, 18 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches; The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Western New York Art at the Burchfield Art Center, 1991
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.
