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Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)

January 1917
(American, 1893–1967)
America
watercolor, gouache, blue and orange crayons, and black wash on wove paper
Sheet: 36.3 x 45.8 cm (14 5/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Anonymous gift in memory of Henry G. Keller 1954.571
Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Catalogue raisonné: Straus; 281; Trovato 245
Location: not on view
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Christmas trees recurred throughout Burchfield's work around this time.

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In this drawing, the gray and brown tones of a row of houses are interrupted by the bright green and yellow of a discarded Christmas tree. The work was created in the same year as Church Bells Ringing, where a Christmas tree visible through a window was meant to contrast the work’s foreboding mood. This earlier image similarly suggests Burchfield’s passion for his favorite holiday, which he saw as a symbol of goodness.

Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)

January 1917

Charles Burchfield

(American, 1893–1967)
America

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