Study for Flame of Spring, 1948

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield, American, 1893-1967

Colored pencil or crayon, graphite pencil, watercolor, and black ink on heavy off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 17 1/16 × 10 13/16 inches (43.3 × 27.5 cm)

Gift of Evelyn Plotnick

2009.82

Signed and dated, in pencil, reinforced in black ink, lower right center of image: [artist's monogram] | 1948

Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: RECENT | 1948 - | WORKING DRAWING FOR. | "FLAME OF SPRING' - W.C. (40 x 30) IN | COLLECTION OF EDWARD ROOT - | 17 1/8 x 10 7/8 -V | CONTE Inscribed, lower left corner, verso: TR10753/223

Evelyn Plotnick

2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Study for Flame of Spring, 1948, colored pencil or crayon, graphite pencil, watercolor, and black ink on heavy off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Evelyn Plotnick, 2009.82.