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Crickets in November
1917
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967)
Drawings
Crickets in November, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Pen and brown ink with black ink, colored crayons, and graphite, with watercolor on two sheets of butt-joined wove paper, lined; 21.9 x 27.6 cm (8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1981.207 Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation This drawing contains themes that Burchfield developed to visually convey sound—in this case, the repetitive chirping of crickets. The combination of script-like lines and repeated forms in the foreground evoked the rising and falling of the insects’ noise, and recurred throughout Burchfield’s work around this time. Burchfield had an interest in depicting personified buildings, and the windows of the house at right were meant to make it seem alive.
- Maker/Artist
- Burchfield, Charles Ephraim
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Pen and brown ink with black ink, colored crayons, and graphite, with watercolor on two sheets of butt-joined wove paper, lined
- Medium
- pen, brown, ink, black, colored, crayons, graphite, watercolor, sheets, butt-joined, wove, paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 27.6 cm (8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, in ink, at lower right: CEB (monogram) / 1917
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1981.207
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield, Charles Burchfield Retrospective Exhibition, The Year in Review for 1981, Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator, Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920, <em>The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, 1893–1967, Paints, Drawings, Prints</em>. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970 (April 9 – May 31, 1970).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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