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Born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio
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After his father died, Burchfield moved with his mother and siblings to Salem, Ohio.
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Graduated from high school as class valedictorian. Considers becoming a nature writer.Worked at the Mullins Company, filing automobile parts until he contracted typhoid fever. After recuperating, he returned to the Mullins Company to work in the cost department.
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Cleveland School of Art
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After graduating from the Cleveland School of Art, Burchfield was awarded a scholarship at the National Academy of Design in New York City, but left after one day in life class. Exhibition of watercolors at Sunwise Turn Bookshop of Mary Mowbray-Clarke in New York and in Cleveland School of Art. Returned to Salem and job at W. H. Mullins Company. Continued to paint during lunch breaks. Mowbray-Clarke remains his dealer until 1922. Met first dealer, Mary Mowbray-Clarke, Sunwise Turn bookshop
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Later Burchfield called this period his “Golden Year” for his inventiveness, stylistic experimentation, and prolific output.
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Camp Jackson, South Carolina; designed camouflage; honorably discharged January 1919 with the rank of sergeant.
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Marries Bertha Kenreich in Greenford, Ohio. They lived briefly at 170 Mariner Street, later at 459 Franklin Street, Buffalo.
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MoMA selected Burchfield for its first one person show. Charles Burchfield: Early watercolors 1916-1918, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; exhibition launches a career with major national recognition.
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Commissioned by Fortune magazine to paint the railroad yards at Altoona and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and in 1937, to paint sulphur and coal mining operations in Texas and West Virginia.
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Completes The Coming of Spring, his first “reconstruction” or composite painting.
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