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Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, No. 2

1917

Charles Burchfield

(American, 1893–1967)
Culture
America
Medium
graphite on two sheets of butt-joined wove paper
Measurements
32.1 x 18.6 cm (12 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1953.430
Copyright
Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Rather than working on a single sheet, Burchfield joined two pieces of paper to make this drawing.

Description

This drawing is the second study for Charles Burchfield's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, which he considered the most important drawing of his "golden year." Here, the artist sketched the composition in graphite, attempting to record the spire of Salem’s Baptist church (since destroyed by fire) rising up between two houses. Burchfield hoped to express his powerful childhood fear of the bell’s ominous ring—which he described as “a dull roar . . . dying slowly & with a growl.”

Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, No. 2

1917

Charles Burchfield

(American, 1893–1967)
America

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