Backyards in Winter (Castoff Christmas Tree)
January 1917
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, blue and orange crayons, and black wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.3 × 45.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193422
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.
Provenance
Keller, 1954.571
Registry history
- January 1917 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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