Julius John Lankes (1884-1960), Beyond Crescent Beach, 1910; oil on board, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Mrs. Anna C. Lingl in honor of her daughter, Helen Lingl Hickey, 1984
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.