ICE GLARE 1933 Charles Burchfield Framed Print Buffalo NY Whitney Penny RARE 12
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ICE GLARE (1933) BY Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) RARE!!Charles BurchfieldOriginal FRAMED PRINT Copyright 1939 by Living American Art Inc. LLA No. 63.Signature lower left corner FRAME MEASURE 21 1/2 X 26 AND IS VERY NICE, HEAVY WOODMedium: lithograph 17 X 21" FRAMED ORIGINAL LIVING AMERICAN ART, INC FRAMED PRINTSLiving American Art, Inc. was founded by Charles Boni for the purpose of disseminating reproductions of American art works to the general public. Boni ...devised a mail order brochure of the prints and set up approximately 250 exhibitions of the prints at colleges, universities, and museums around the country for publicity. Also published was a periodical which carried brief biographies of artists whose works were chosen for reproduction, thus attempting to generally educate the "average" American in issues and history of American art.In August 1929, Charles Burchfield resigned from his job as a designer at the M. H. Birge & Sons wallpaper company in Buffalo, New York, to concentrate full-time on his art. While his financial solvency was not impacted by the onset of the Great Depression, his imagery was. In Ice Glare and other contemporaneous works, Burchfield shifted to a darker, more subdued palette, which he used to depict the buildings and empty streets of Buffalo "in all their garish and crude primitiveness and unlovely decay." To create this image, Burchfield worked on site at the corner of Clinton and Lord Streets, making at least one preparatory drawing before embarking on the watercolor, as was his habit. Burchfield took great care to transcribe the details of the gridded sketch into the complex composition and varied surfaces of this snow-covered scene. The original of this is part of the Whitney Museum Collection
