Sgn. CB 1931

In the Charles E. Burchfield Archives, “Mid Morning in June” is documented in Charles E. Burchfield’s Painting Indexes, Volume VIII, Number 32 as follows:
TITLE                “MID MORNING IN JUNE”
DATE                1930-31
MEDIUM           WATER COLOR
SIZE                 27 X 40
LOCATION
OR SUBJECT    GARDENVILLE, N.Y. — OLD LUMBER-MILL AND ON[E] OF THE OLD EBENEZER “KITCHENS” WITH CATHOLIC PARISH HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.
COLLECTION    JOHN SEXTON
SOLD BY          REHN.

 


Exhibition History:

Exhibition of Water Colors by Charles Burchfield, “The Galleries of Frank K. M. Rehn, 683 Fifth Avenue, Between 53rd & 54th Streets, New York City,” presented October 26-November 14, 1931.  “Mid Morning in June” is # 9 on the list of 18 works in the small checklist.

 Midmorning in June (listed as a single word) is # 776 in Trovato, Joseph S., ed.  Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections.  Utica: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970.  (It’s the closest to a catalogue raisonné that has been published thus far.)  The book is divided into yearly listings, so this one in the section for 1931 is:

776. MIDMORNING IN JUNE

“Gardenville”

28 x 41 sheet    lr Monogram/1931          S611     [This refers to John Straus’ catalogue listing from 1942.]

Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland         [The current owner in 1970]

Ex John L. Sexton

18, 25, 135 

[These numbers refer to the Exhibition History:

# 18: EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS BY CHARLES BURCHFIELD, Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, October 26-November 14, 1931

# 25: AN EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS AND OILS BY CHARLES BURCHFIELD, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, March 8-April 3, 1938

#135: 20TH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WATERCOLORS, The Art Institute of Chicago, July 17-October 5, 1941 and exhibition shown as CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WATER COLORS, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 16-November 9, 1941.]