Charles BurchfieldAmerican, 1893–1967The Sun Through the Trees
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- The museum
About the work
While sketching in the Ohio countryside in 1916, Burchfield began to represent the sun as a dramatic orb. This sheet is part of a group in which the artist suggested stained glass windows using trees and the sun. Here, branches reach toward the sun to form a dark, halo-like frame filled by sunlight that diffuses into an array of color. By combining landscape with religious iconography, Burchfield suggested the divine influence he saw in nature.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1930.849
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Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — Museum open access
