Carlo Nisita (1895-1990), Scajaquada Creek, 1931; intaglio print, Overall: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm) Frame: 9 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (23.2 x 29.8 cm); Gift of David Pratt, 1991
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.