About the Artwork
Starlit Woods
1917
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1893-1967
American
Unknown
Watercolor over charcoal pencil on five sheets of pieced together wove paper
Sheet: 33 5/8 × 22 1/2 inches (85.4 × 57.2 cm) Mount (paperboard): 33 7/8 × 22 3/4 inches (86 × 57.8 cm) Framed: 29 1/2 × 28 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (74.9 × 71.8 × 3.2 cm)
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Bequest of the Shirley A. Mopper Trust in memory of her husband Dr. Coleman Mopper
2010.171
Reproduced with permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.
Markings
Signed and dated, in black crayon, lower left: Chas. Burchfield | FEB 25 | 1917
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: "STAR-LIT WOODS" | 1917 | 33 1/2 x 22 1/2
Provenance
estate of Shirley A. Mopper
2010-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Reproduced with permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Starlit Woods, 1917, watercolor over charcoal pencil on five sheets of pieced together wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of the Shirley A. Mopper Trust in memory of her husband Dr. Coleman Mopper, 2010.171.
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