May Morning
1915
Artist, American, 1893 - 1967

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Laura T. Magnuson)
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Dimensions
sheet: 30.32 × 22.86 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.2816
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Martha Burchfield (daughter of the artist), West Seneca, New York; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York); private collection, New York; (Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York); (Hull Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 2
Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983
1983
American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 56-57, no. 32, repro
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 186, no. 1258.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Chas Burchfield / May 1915; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: May 1915
Wikidata ID
Q64538213