Ice Glare > Collection > Burchfield Penney Art Center

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Ice Glare, 1933; Watercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper, 31 1/2 × 25 inches; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 33.64

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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.