Charles Burchfield Timeline

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  • Born

    Born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio

  • Father dies. Moves to Salem, Ohio.

    After his father died, Burchfield moved with his mother and siblings to Salem, Ohio.

  • Graduated high school

    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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    Art school

    Cleveland School of Art
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    Early period

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  • Trip to NYC

    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

  • "Golden Year"

    "Golden Year"
    Later Burchfield called this period his “Golden Year” for his inventiveness, stylistic experimentation, and prolific output.

  • Camouflage design while in the Army

    Camouflage design while in the Army
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    Army

    Camp Jackson, South Carolina; designed camouflage; honorably discharged January 1919 with the rank of sergeant.

  • Modernist Architectural Paintings

    Modernist Architectural Paintings
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  • Moved to Buffalo, NY

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    American Scene Period - Realist Period

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    Wallpaper designer at M. H. Birge & Sons

  • Marries

    Marries Bertha Kenreich in Greenford, Ohio. They lived briefly at 170 Mariner Street, later at 459 Franklin Street, Buffalo.

  • MoMA show of Early Watercolors launched career

    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.

  • Fortune Magazine Commission to paint railroad yards

    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.

  • Completes The Coming of Spring, his first "reconstruction" painting

    Completes The Coming of Spring, his first “reconstruction” or composite painting.
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    Later Imaginative Period

  • Death from a heart attack