Charles Burchfield letter to Louise Burchfield
name: label: Creator
content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
label: Names
content: Burchfield, Louise
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was a watercolorist, illustrator, and painter in New York and Ohio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.burcchar2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Three page hand written, illustrated letter on one folded sheet from Charles Burchfield to his sister Louise. Burchfield painted a detail of his watercolor "Winter Bouquet" on the front of the card. Burchfield writes that he originally created a woodcut of "Winter Bouquet" but did not feel that it was "Burchfieldesque" enough and he instead made a watercolor. The letter also references upcoming plans for Christmas and the untimely deaths of Burchfield's sister, Frances and mother, Alice (they died June 13 and June 23, 1933, respectively). Burchfield and Louise were saddened that this would be the first Christmas without Frances and Alice.