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Died. Charles Burchfield, 73, homespun, Ohio-born artist, who shunned publicity, never traveled abroad, cared little for critics, convention or popular trends in art, nonetheless won fame and financial success in the 1920s for his watercolors of grey and sordid industrial scenes, after which he changed his style completely, indulged his sense of fantasy by musing about heaven ("Like Corot, I hope there will be painting there") and doing fairy-tale landscapes haunted by macabre creatures; of heart disease; in Gardenville...
...current exhibitions are not intentionally related; yet they all seem like instruments-some reedy, some pure, some weak, some strong-of a single symphony. In Buffalo last week, two galleries paid homage to Local Boy Charles Burchfield on his 70th anniversary, while France was paying homage to Eugène Delacroix on the 100th anniversary of his death. At one Burchfield opening, 700 admirers crowded about their hero to wish him well; in Paris, the air was filled with talk of Delacroix-the huge show coming at the Louvre, the appetizer exhibitions now on view in Paris and Bordeaux...
...with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals...
...Charles Burchfield...
...Previous winners in painting: Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, Rico Lebrun and Raphael Soyer. In other years, the award is given for sculpture, the novel, poetry and drama...