Sun Behind Cloud > Collection > Burchfield Penney Art Center

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Sun Behind Cloud, July 5; watercolor with graphite on paper, Overall: 14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm) Frame: 21 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (55.2 x 70.5 cm); Gift of Tony Sisti, 1979

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"Burchfield has exacted a quality that we may call poetic, romantic, lyric, or what you will. By sympathy with the particular, he has made it epic and universal." - Edward Hopper, who was friends with Burchfield (both were represented by the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries in New York).