The Cleveland Artists Foundation
Lakewood, OH
216-227-9507
The Poetics of Place: Charles
Burchfield and the Cleveland Connection
Cleveland Artists Foundation's (CAF) new exhibition
The Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and the Cleveland Connection
will be on view through November 25, 2000 in CAF's gallery at the Beck
Center for the Arts in Lakewood. An opening reception will be held on Saturday,
October 14 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The show will feature nearly 50 paintings
of scenes of Ohio from the first half of this 1900s by Charles Burchfield
(1893-1967) and his network of Cleveland connections. (left Charles
Burchfield, Afterglow, July 8, 1916, watercolor and graphite on paper,
44 x 20 inches, The Burchfield-Penney Art Center Collection)
Burchfield's Cleveland connections include his influences,
teachers and admirers: Grace Veronica Kelly (1877-1950), Henry George Keller (1870-1949), William
Sommer (1867-1949). Clara L. Deike (1881-1964), George Adomeit (1879-1967),
Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000), William Joseph Eastman (1888-1956)
and Paul Bough Travis (1891-1975). Nanette Maciejunes, senior curator and
director of Collections and 
Exhibitions at the Columbus
Museum of Art will speak at the free opening reception 6:15 p.m. on
October 14. (right: Charles Burchfield, Untitled [Trees],
March,, 1916, watercolor and graphite on paper, The Burchfield-Penney Art
Center Collection)
The
show was co-curated by Christine Shearer, director and curator of the Cleveland
Artists Foundation and Nancy Weekly, Charles Cary Rumsey Curator of the
Burchfield - Penney Art Center in
Buffalo, NY. (left Charles Burchfield, Windswept Sky, September
10, 1916, watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 14 x 20 inches, The
Burchfield-Penney Art Center Collection)
The Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo is a partner
in this exhibit. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with
state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational growth, educational
excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. The John P. Murphy Foundation
and the Kulas Foundation also contributed.
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Artists Foundation in Resource Library
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Cleveland Artists Foundation's (CAF) new exhibition
The Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and the Cleveland Connection
will be on view through November 25, 2000 in CAF's gallery at the Beck
Center for the Arts in Lakewood. An opening reception will be held on Saturday,
October 14 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The show will feature nearly 50 paintings
of scenes of Ohio from the first half of this 1900s by Charles Burchfield
(1893-1967) and his network of Cleveland connections. (left Charles
Burchfield, Afterglow, July 8, 1916, watercolor and graphite on paper,
44 x 20 inches, The Burchfield-Penney Art Center Collection)
