Study For Fireflies And Lightning #6 > Collection

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Study for Fireflies and Lightning #6, c.1964-65; conté crayon on paper, Overall: 12 7/8 x 17 in. (32.7 x 43.2 cm) Frame: 19 x 25 in. (48.3 x 63.5 cm); Gift of the Artist, 1967

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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.