The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 9, 2026

A horizontally oriented screenprint on tan paper depicts vibrant yellow sunflowers with dark centers rising on green stalks. To the right, white, skeletal sunflower outlines stand against a muted orange wash. A massive, dark brown rectangular barn dominates the middle ground beneath a pale gray sky. Arcing lines and organic shapes suggest dense foliage across the foreground. Registration marks anchor the corners, while a signature appears in the lower left.

Sunflowers and Red Barn

c. 1942

Charles Burchfield

(American, 1893–1967)
America
screenprint on tan wove paper
Image: 40.4 x 51 cm (15 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.); Sheet: 45.2 x 58.6 cm (17 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
Bequest of the Thomas H. Horner and Virginia Jackson Horner Trust 2024.55
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Burchfield especially liked drawing dying sunflowers because of their anthropomorphic forms.

Description

This work is the only screenprint produced by Charles Burchfield, an artist who experimented with other printmaking techniques, including etching and lithography. Here, a garden of sunflowers is seen near the artist’s barn, rendered in flat, planar forms. The print was published by The Living American Art, Inc., a company founded in 1936 to circulate original prints to the American public.
  • 1975–2024
    Tom Horner, Hudson, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2024-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2024.55