Selecting Charles Burchfield Drawings for my Exhibit
Drawing is seeing. I don't know who said that, but it is something I find myself saying all the time. One of the joys of the two and a half years I spent as the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Artist is Residence was my discovery of how much the painter Charles Burchfield apparently agreed with me. Burchfield drew seemingly all the time. When the museum first proposed holding an exhibition of my work from the Residency they suggested I could curate into my exhibit drawings I selected from their Burchfield Archives. I think my response at the time was a dignified "I'd love to" but on the inside it was " Holy Cow!!!" I feel deeply honored to have my work displayed side-by-side with this American master Burchfield's drawing of a house and trees at left; at right my drawing of Burchfield's boyhood home that I made on a trip to Salem, Ohio. Below is a better view of the Burchfield. There