October Skies > Collection > Burchfield Penney Art Center

Wilbur H. Porterfield (1873-1958), October Skies, 1942; black and white print, 10 x 13 inches (Frame: 21 9/16 x 17 5/8 inches); Gift of R.M. Lane, 1970

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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.