Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Conventions for Abstract Thoughts: Aimless Brooding
1917
China marker and graphite on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
Aimless Brooding resembles clothes hanging from a closet hook, as in The Salem Bedroom Studio (1917), or cavernous spaces between tree branches, such as those next to the Brooding Carlisle [House] (1918).
--Content by Nancy Weekly for the exhibition "A Dream World of Imagination: Charles E. Burchfield's Golden Year."
