The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)
January 1917
(American, 1893–1967)
Sheet: 36.3 x 45.8 cm (14 5/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Catalogue raisonné: Straus; 281; Trovato 245
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Christmas trees recurred throughout Burchfield's work around this time.Description
In this drawing, the gray and brown tones of a row of houses are interrupted by the bright green and yellow of a discarded Christmas tree. The work was created in the same year as Church Bells Ringing, where a Christmas tree visible through a window was meant to contrast the work’s foreboding mood. This earlier image similarly suggests Burchfield’s passion for his favorite holiday, which he saw as a symbol of goodness.- Henry Keller [1869-1949], Cleveland, Ohio1954Louise M. Dunn [1875-1962], gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio1954-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Trovato, Joseph S. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970. Mentioned: p. 56, no. 245Trovato, Joseph S. Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections. Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970, p. 56.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.571