The Prints of Charles Burchfield

Charles E. Burchfield (1893 - 1967) is primarily known for his paintings, mostly in watercolor.
He did, however, do a few prints: one etching, eleven wood engravings, and three lithographs.
Here are six of the wood engravings. They were done in collaboration with Julius J. Lankes (1884 - 1960).
Burchfield did the drawings directly on the wood blocks and Lankes cut the blocks.

The first of these, "Uprooted Tree", is typical of Burchfield's approach to nature. It is a perfectly
realistic image of at tree torn from the earth by a storm, but from a point of view that suggests a
creature crying out in pain.

Uprooted Tree

The next series of images illustrate small-town America:

The Haymow

Gossips

Carolina Village

Saturday Night

There was also a plan with Lankes' brother Frank to publish an illustrated edition of the Biblical book "Ecclesiastes".
While this project was never carried out, Burchfield and J.J. Lankes completed four of the wood engravings.
Here is one such (atypical for Burchfield, who avoided figure drawing!):

Cain and Abel

The last prints Burchfield made were three lithographs. They are very much in the style of his later paintings.
Here are scans of these prints:

Summer Benediction

Crows in March

Autumn Wind

Finally, sometime around 1940, Burchfield worked with Charles Boni to produce a serigraph
(i.e., a silkscreen) after a 1916 watercolor. It is called

Sunflowers and Red Barn

Burchfield himself didn't know how many were printed or how they were distributed.
While the design looks abstract, it is actually a realistic image. Burchfield wrote that it shows
"sunflowers in our back alley, hot Aug. sunlight, McCarty's red barn" in Salem, Ohio.
Czestochowski (below) doesn't list this print.
If anyone knows more about this print (date, edition, printer, etc.), I'd like to hear from you.


Reference:
Czestochowski, Joseph S., The Published Prints of Charles E. Burchfield,
~~~~~~American Art Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2. (Nov., 1976), pp. 99-110.