CHARLES BURCHFIELD Man Walking with a Cane outside

CHARLES BURCHFIELD

Man Walking with a Cane outside Gazing Houses.

Watercolor and black crayon on cream wove paper, 1918. 220x323 mm; 8½x12½ inches.Accompanying this lot is a research report completed by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.Ex-collection private collection, New York; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, New York.In a journal entry from January 5, 1918, Burchfield (1893-1967) wrote, "The silvery gray gloom of a January noon; the bottoms of houses lost in steel gray haze--the houses have the staring white eyes of ghosts."