Burcfi.fie[cf Centen n ia[ Edition
'Tuesday, J!lpri{ 13, 1993 Section of tlie Salem :;i.&.ws
On a ba[my Afay morning in 1916, Cliar[es 'Burclifie[d captured tliis scene of f [eecy wliite c[ouds f Coating above neigli boring liomes a[ong 'East 'Tliird Street from tlie vantage point of liis f ami[y s .second fCoor window. 'Iliis scene, and otliers paintea auring tliose ear[y yeCfrs of liis Cife, brouglit liim interna tiona[ acc[aim. r.Bur clijie{a never forgot liis roots anti menwr ia{izea liis liometown in numerous paintings unti{ liis aeatli in 1967. .
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Snow Patterns Burchfield' s ~.J'· ~:;::::;::=----======::;::==~.!;::;:::n~.,~iri 'David Stevenson Cabinetmakjn 230 E. State St., Salem 332-8318 early work ,· comes back We Welcome The Burchfield Family To Salem. to Salem By Dick Wootten Visit One Of Salem~ Finest HE EXHIBIT OF paint Menswear Stores T ings and drawings by Charles Burchfield that opens Friday for six weeks at the But ler Salem Art Museum marks a homecoming of sorts. Directly across from the Butler Art Institute The artworks themselves most likely haven't been seen here since Charles Burchfield Sleet Stonn, also titled After the Ice Stonn: The Rent Collector ..------left Salem to move to Buffalo in 1921. Burchfield (1893 - 1967), a Welcome To The watercolorist whose name is firmly fixed in American art history, evolved through sever Charles Burchfield al art styles during his long career. The Salem exhibit fea Anniversary tures several works from 1916, a time when he was still Celebration influenced by oriental art. His biographer, John Baur, We b,pe ~{}-U e#jr'fo~ ilte /edhdied. wrote in his 1956 book,"Charles Burchfield:" "In June, 1916, Burchfield graduated from the Cleveland Lease rug School of Art and returned to 229 N. Ellsworth, Salem, Ohio 337-8727 Salem and his job in the cost department at Mullins. For "Still Serving the Nicest People with Red Carpet Treatment" about a year he had been paint ing his own impressions of nature - at first in rather harsh, brilliant colors and bold, flat patterns; then, in 1916, with quieter tones, greater subtlety and more poetic feeling, fY~~5~~~tY~~~ though still in an essentially Birds driven with Cries of Fear from a Woods by a Rapidly flat and decorative manner. Rising Flood Jvln us fvr a ~/1 Now he spent every spare moment sketching in the famil true poet needs no more.' For is from behind Burchfield's CenturY 4.PPreclatlvn ~ iar countryside of his youth, was he not an artist these days, East Fourth Street house look and a wave of happiness came sketching when and where he ing south. vf the 4.l"b! 4 over him. 'After a long period wished, with the whole world • "Bozzert's Dam," watercolor, of gloom ... and self-hatred, I of nature still to be explored? w/pencil, 20 by 14." The dam, came home tonight under the Its bigness overwhelmed him. no longer in existance, was off Charle§ 13urchfleld half-moon exceedingly light of With youth's unconscious egot Butcher Road, southwest of l()()UI Elrthdal' ~nnl\lerian' heart, so that I unconsciously ism, 'life seemed short for the Washingtonville. whistled.' Fireflies 'popped like stupendous work I am to • "Untitled (Red houses)," stars' in the marshy valleys, accomplish.' " May 17, 1916, watercolor v-' and as he walked he composed The paintings from 1916 that pencil, 20 by 14." The painting strange music to an improvised are in the Salem exhibit is the rearview of a Third Street JC Penney tale of unhappy lovers. He had include: house, just south of Bur no more possessions, he •"Stormy Day in Late chfield's home. 503 E. State St., Salem, Ohio 337-3244 reflected, than the love of August," 1916, watercolor w I nature and life, but then, 'the pencil, 13% by 9% ." The view See EXHIBIT, page 4 Yest:erqears 1uesaay, ;,Jprif l3i 19.9i Schedule of Paint the perfect picture with us at Burchfield Centennial c;(ennills's
FRIDAY, April 16 635 E. State St., Salem The Burchfield Gala is a fund-raiser for the Salem Branch of the Butler Institute of Art. Tickets are $30 per person. Persons who buy the $40 ticket also received a limited-edition poster showing the original Burchfield painting donated to the Salem Museum. by Arthur Burchfield, son of the artist. A ticket includes admission to "Burchfield's Homecoming," a one-act play at the Salem Community Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and the Salem Gala party at the museum. The museum will open at 7 p.m. for CeComputer patrons not attending the play. Members of the Burchfield family nter will attend a reception at 9 p.m. For gala tickets call 743-1107 A free laser light show for the general public and party-goers will be featured on State Steet at 10 p.m. Celebrate Our Grand Opening During The Charles Burchfield Celebration SATURDAY, April 17 =--"11111111111111 April 16 & 17 Friday 10-8 and Saturday 10-5 iji!illl 11 10 a.m. to noon 386 E. State St., Salem 332-8885 1 Free walking tour of Burchfield's painting sites will be held 'mERLE noRmAn®, , near his boyhood home at 867 E. Fourth Street. (No interior tours.) ~~~.~ The public is invited to park in the Salem Junior High School parking lot behind the school on North Lincoln at East Second Street. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ~me Noon to 5 p.m. American Art of Salem . The Burchfield art exhibit will be open at the Salem Butler Museum. Welcomes The 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Repeat performances of "Burchfield's Homecoming" will be Charles Burchfield presented at the Salem Community Theater. Tickets are $5 per person. Call 332-9688 for tickets. Family ~ Foundation The art exhibit at the Salem Butler will continue for six weeks. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays; and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. "Come Celebrate 7he '-9Lrts" ~~~~ "-~--' This view of "The Edge of Town," inspired by the buildings on the southwest corner of Broadway and State, can be seen today in Salem. This painting is number one in 11Jeko111e to. .ti. the series of 35 Burchfield painting sites that follow on the next three pages. The painting is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. ~""~~~ .., '°" u.pu, de~· Compuments of SALEM FOOT AND ANKLE CLINIC 295 N. Ellsworth Salem OH 332-5750 1-800-621-3668 ~~A1f'-Q.A~"'"'" ~. c\'.'""'~:s-~~-;--.~J ~~/'\t1\~ . ·~~ a W:m:..coME To S.IU.DI IN HoNOB OF CeABus Buace111:m:1.D's lOOr:u F'BAB CB£BBBA'ftON Nannette Maciejunes, curator Brick Kilns as if the Branches collectors and even some doo of American Art at the Colum Were Growing out of the dles for which Burchfield was bus Museum of Art, made Kilns," charcoal, ink, crayon famous. Labels and document ~~vllrlg's 337-0031 1J arrangements for the Salem and pencil on paper; 12 by 14 ing photographs will accom Butler Museum to display six ~a~a~0r'l-~<&~"ffi,r<:A.~f. 3 4 "Snow Patterns," 1920 "Rising Smoke," 1917 Figure 68, Early W odes of Char "The Interm·ban Line~" 1920 "Circus Poster 999," 1917. Page 1, "Watercolm-s, 1915-20," Ken les Burchfield, 1915-1921 Page 20, "Cha1·les Burchfield" by Page 27, "Watercolo1·s, 1915-20," nedy Galleries View from now-razed Colum Matthew Baigell Kennedy Galleries Scene diffe1·ent now. bia Street School, at South Buildings on left still identifiable. Buildings in foreground gone; Lundy and Columbia Street. church lowe1· the same. 7THST. 4 ~ ~1--~----~o-----~Q 01------1------~~------~ ~ It) : ~...Jt--~~~~--..~~~~~""T""~~~~~~~-1 ~ >.. ~"<:t------t----~~------+------~ ~ ~~-+-~~~~~+-~~~~--1.....r~~~~~,..,....-.,.,=-1 "<: "February Thaw," 1920 Page 97, "Chaa·les Bu1·chfit'ld. Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Pl"ivate Collections" Fantasy versions of buildings rear ranged on State Sh·eet. 7 12 ""Main Stn•t't, Wint1•r Day:· 1!117, r1·w01·k1•dyt·ars lalt•r. l'agt' G!l. "Tht• I11landt'r00 hy John I.II. Baur Fantasy vt•1·sio11 with artist's private "Gothic House," 1!120 "Tht> Thret> Trt>t•s." rn:: 1-·Hi joke 11 9 Backyard in Spring," 1917-46 Page 220, "Charles Burchfield, Catalogue of Paintings in Publ ic and Private Collections." Scene changed. Building on "Church Bells Ringing, Rainy "Twilight in th ...\llt"y." rn20 "Thn·t· Days of ltain. 1918 left was Broadway Hotel, razed Winter Night." 1917 Plate 9. ·;The Drawings or Charles Page 84, "Charles Bun·hfiehl, Page 37, "Charles Burchfield" by BurchHehl" Catalogu .. of Paintings in Public and in the 1920s. Two buildings Matthew Baigell Stairway on right is still in plact" on Privalt• CollPction" adjacent to hotel still exist. Fantasy version of former Baptist east side or Love's Bakery; centc1· Appearanc.. of building similar l'X Church, now Salem Area Chamber of huildiJ•!( possibly a relocated Penn cPpt for ground floor. Commerce building. Grill. "Trees and ltoofs," 1!115 "The Night Wind." 1918 "The Christmas Chimney" "Night of the Equinox." 19li-55 Platt- I, "Charles E. Burchfield: Page 40, "Charles llurchficld" by Pia le 33, "Watercolors: Visual Page li3, ""Chal"ies Burchfield" by Watercolors. Visual Music." Ken Matthew Baigell Music," Kennedy Galleries. Matthew Baigell nedy Galleries. Fantasy version or present building. Chimney still in place. His boyhood home on left and house Scene basically the same today. One of his most famous paintings, with tall chimney 011 right are still in now owned by Museum of Modern place. A1·t in New York. 27 "Village Laue, Morning Sunlight," "'Sunlight Before The Storm."' 1915 l!llG Page ·I, "'Watercolors. 1915-20," Ken Page 15, "Catalogm• or Paintings in nedy Galleries Public and Private Collections"' Scene similar today. Buildings between poles still 111·esent. "Gentle Snow !-'all," 1920 "Powt'r Lines and Snow." 1916 Plate 10, "The Drawings or Charles Plate G, "The Inlander"' by John I.II. Burchfield" Baur Foreground buildings gone, houses The two houses on the left are still on still present. East Third Street. 19 ALLEY D D LJ D £. FOUfl.TH ST. "Wet Winter Dusk,"' 1916 Plat1' 20, "Watercolors. 1915-20,"' Kenm•dy Galleries Scent• similar today. !'Jal<' !I. '"\\'al!'rcolor,. \'isual :\lusic,"" Krmu•dy (;a1J1•ri1·' ;\ddilion lo pord1 now ol"lrucb vil'W of haekgnumd. 20 ·)'.> -·> 21 "The Song of the Katydids on an Augu,t Morning," 1!117 Pag1· 28, "Charles Burchfield" by Mallhcw Baigt•ll Scene similar today. "In lh1· Bedroom Studio." f!Ho ":"l "View Near Sall•m. Ohio:· l!ll• "Little Beave1· Vaill')', .. 1!11' Plate 2~. "Charles Burchfidd. Kt>n "Pine lloilow in Spring," l!H• Page iO, "The Inlander" by John I. IH'dy ·Galleries" Page ti4. "The Inlander" by John II. Baur View similai· today. I.II. Baur Covered bridge is gone on road now abandoned. Area still has similar appea1·ance. "White Violets and Coal Mine." 1918 Page 89, "The lulande1"' by John I.II. Baur Very similar today. 32 BERTHA~ o t KENREJC'f BURCH FIELD'S --! CHILDHOOD "S"" H0/'1£ .._._ "Building with Domed Top," ta 1917 Plate 21, Charles Burchfield RT. 165 J° Watercolors, 1915-1920 House on left above brick kiln still exists. FORMER COV£R£D 33 STEEL BRIDGE. (4BANDOA1£D\ / PINE LAKE ROAD \SECTION ) "Evening," 1919 Plate 28, Charles Burchfield Watercolors, 1915-1920 Houses still exist PINE HOLLOW ~ )> 3 )> C/l :r:: z 34 z (/l ~ :--1 0z < "Factories," 1919 Plate 29, Charles Burchfield r BUTCHER RD. Watercolors, 1915-1920 Foundry razed for World War II scrap metal .0 r rn f'l -I i 0 .,, z 0 c .)> z ;:u 0 0 ;u ;." -<. "Star and Fire," 1920 Plate 22, The Inlander by John Baur Remains of coke ovens at Cher ry Valley Coke Ovens and Arboretum Park in Leetonia ._, · · ~~~~~~ ']'est:erqears ~~~~~~ :;.-c:::::::- Q~\; e: ." ~ .2.9::.i~.::~~~~~s~~.. J.t~~ 1 ~~ 'IutScfay,Jipm13,1993 ~tl~~ 9' .----'---~~~~~~~---:------~-:--, Misconceptions plagued Burchfield /'tlfeed a ctJoY ftJr a about his feelings for native· town Thi§ C()mmem()rativerelative? By N a.nnette Ma.ciejunes place." whose concern was truth and HE RELATIONSHIP Although Burchfield publicly who literary counterparts were between artists and critics denied hating Salem in 1928 - Dickens and Balzac. At least issue is available fC)r in modern culture reminds one explaining that he had one openly conjectured that the of the old popular song about indulged a mental mood of Burchfield's depictions of both just Jli~ each. love and marriage, which jaun "dissatisfaction with myself Salem and Buffalo - a "specta tily proclaims "you can't have and everything about me" only tor standing before one of these one without the other." Though briefly before embracing "the pictures is so moved by the most artists lament this reality, great epic poetry of midwest beauty of Burchfield's few have not come to accept American life" in early 1920 - truth... as to almost forget all Call 33 the conventional wisdom that McBride remained uncon this sordidness and ugliness in even a bad review is better vinced. Dubbing Burchfield's the communication spirit of his than none at all. paintings "Songs of Hate,". in art its clear intensity, its shin HART THERAPEUTIC RIDING As a commentator and inter the pages of the very magazme ing passion." FOR THE HANDICAPPED pretor of the artist and his in which the artist defended Although there seems to himself, McBride reported hap 10996 State Route 45, work, the critic inserts himself have been confusion in the ear Lisbon, Ohio 44432 into the vital equation that pily that Burchfield's recent ly reviews of his work over links artists and audience. He work proved that Buffalo, who Burchfield was and what asks the initial questions about where the artist moved in 1921, he was up to, the opinion ab~::mt RIDER OF THE the artist's work, often presum also served his "talent for hat his prodigious talent as a pamt MONTH ing in his answers i:ot. only. to ing." Though few other critics er was nearly unanimous. By explain what the artist is domg seem to have wanted to ven any standards the critics agreed but to declare whether he is ture into the argument over he was a painter whose talent JACKLYN doing it successfully. __ whether or not Burchfield truly was to be reckoned with. Bur hated Salem, (some preferring Critics, who the public per chfield' s willingness to disre MATTERN to refer to it simply as the gard the "rules for the polite Two~year old ceives as arbiters of quality and artist's "adolescent revolt") it is taste, can make or break usage of watercolors" asto~ Jacklyn Mattern of dear from their comments that ished and delighted most cri careers. Critics with their own most of them saw strong ele East Liverpool aesthetic agenda - of which tics. Embracing both the style is one of the ments of satire and irony in the and expanded size of his water there have always been many first works exhibited in New handicapped riders - can champion or condemn York. This impression lingered colors, critics readily accepted attending the an artist's work for reasons in the minds of critics for a Burchfield as an artist "outside irrelevant of artistic quality. the school of watercolor" who, Hart Therapeutic number of years. For many the Riding for the Although the critical response question of how much satirical as one critic put is simply, an artist's work receives during "really paints in watercolor." handicapped program. content any given Burchfield Back rider is Jean Hart his life does not necessarily watercolor contained became a They magnanimously declared reflect what value history will point of departure for all dis to "permit any use or misuse of and at the halter is place on the work, it does pro cussions of Burchfield's work. the medium he wishes." Only Suzanne Lowry of vide interesting insights into The rumor that Burchfield an occasional critic dissented. Salem. what the artist's contempora hated his hometown was not To critics who favored tradi ries thought. When followed the only misconception about tional watercolor, Burchfield's over the course of a career, cri work sometimes seemed heavy the young artist repeated in the and flat. In it, they felt "work VISIT ticism can even help explain an New York press. According to artist's checkered fortunes or one romantic legend, which fol manship" had repla~ed,, the sustained popularity. "sparkling spontaneity of THE CHARLES BURCHFIELD ROOM lowed Burchfield as far as Lon watercolor. Charles Burchfield made a don, England when his water AT THE SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC dramatic, and, for his home One critic even considered town, a particularly memor colors were exhibited there in the difference of approach and able, debut in the New York 1923, he was "a self-taught Burchfield's preference for press, in the early 1920s, as artist who supported himself gouache to be signs of limited "the young man who lived in by working as a coal miner and technical knowlege. When the Salem, Ohio and hated it." In who painted pictures of Salem artist began to exhibit his oils his commentary on the water because he must paint some in 1930 many critics were sup colors Burchfield exhibited at thing and had no means to go portive, encouraging Bur;:hfield the Sunwise Turn Bookshop elsewhere." Burchfield tried to explore the medi'.1m iurtl_l~r and Kevorkian Galleries, critic patiently to put this tale to rest since they believed it gave his as well in the 1928 article he Henry McBride also des_cri_bed work even greater "dignity and wrote about himself. Burchfield solidity." . . . the artist's post 1917 depictions also enlisted the assistance of of Salem as savage satires As interest m pamting and fellow painter Edward Hopper writing about overtly A~erican which made "a powerful accu to help explain his intentions to sation against our so-called subjects strengthened m t~e the public. In a 1928 article on late 1920s, critics began to dis civilization itself." Ignorant of Burchfield, Hopper foresha the haunting beauty of many of cuss Burchfield as a "pioneer of dowed much later critical opin the American scene," noting Burchfield's early 1915 to 1917 ion on the artist: "The work of that his satire had turned to watercolors which would not Charles Burchfield is most poetry. They saw in his work a be seen New York until in' decidedly founded, not on art, change in mood that reflected 1930, McBride saw in the later but on life and the life that he paintings "the eloquence. of their own changing attitude - knows and loves best. From "He reflects a general change anquish." To his eyes the. h1:Ild what is to the mediocre artist among us in our attitude tow ings which filled the pamti.n~s and unseeing layman the bore ards ourselves, our new respect were "positively ?bscen~ 1~ dom of everyday existence in a their wanton disrepair. for what we have been and provincial community, he has what we are. We restore the Pen & Ink by Charles Burchfield - Courtesy-Salem Historical Society McBride was so convinced of extracted a quality that we may OFFICERS ' "Citizen Burchfield' s" satirical once-despised furniture of our call poetic, romantic, lyric or parents to favor; he makes_ President, Judith Anderson Vice President, Kim Snyder intent, he even expressed con what you will." Burchfield Recording Secretary, Sandy Hill Corres. Secretary, Janice Lesher cern for the young artist's "pre works of art from our mongrel returned the favor in 1933 in a architecture, and the homely Treasurer, Eileen Groves Museum Director, Josephine Rupe sent safety and future spiritual Assistant Museum Director, Caroline Lehwald insightful essay he wrote for locomotive steaming through growth" doubting that Salem TRUSTIES the Museum of Modern Art's the town, workingmen's simple would allow him to "go on hat Mark Baker Raymond Coppock Jeanalice Fehr Hopper retrospective. homes, factories, railroad tracks ing her at close range" and Less flippant critics than Robert Geuhl Norm Wingard Paul Myers worrying if forced to leave the and semaphore, the entrance to Barbara Plummer Fred Rupe Robert Stamp McBride immediately acknow a mine, the ugly little stores town whether Burchfield could ledged Burchfield as "a realist Representative To Salem Community Found~tion - Dr. Carl Lehwald "as effectively hate any other of disconcerting frankness" See CRITICS, page 10 Membership: David Stratton Bugle Editor: LoUISe Murdock ')1est:erqears 'Tue.slay, JJ.prif 13, 1993 realize that "the shacks he now March, in the December 1930 paints with such brutal factuali show suddenly had critics ty he then invested with his mentioning comparisons with own fears and joys, making the seventeenth century Dutch them bewitched or terrible landscape master Ruisdael according to his fancy." The rather than the contemporary with their false fronts." His helpless honesty such as his. I universal." primary interest the paintings American novelist Dreiser. The great achievement to these cri like honesty of any sort. I can't For those writers who saw in held for many, however, was discovery that Burchfield could tics was his ability to provide always manage it myself, but I the rising American scene pain the "poignant glimpse'r they also be a romantic pantheist Americans with a "fresh vis certainly like it in others. So the ters a repudiation of the early provided "into the artist's inter increasingly led critics after ion" of themselves - "Sudden- absence of floss and delicate modernism, of artists such as ior growth." 1930 to define Burchfield as a 1y we are cured of our astig persiflage and double meaning Dove, Hartley, and Scharnberg, Far more directly influential "thoroughly American artist matism and can see the rich doesn't worry me at all .. .I am Burchfield and Edward Hopper on critical opinion about the not only because he paints the colors of the everyday world." more than content with his were sarcastically dismissed as artist was the fact that his deal American scene, but because he By 1930 Burchfield was regu determined insistence upon the having "put into paint" Theo er, Frank Rehn, began to combines realism and romance larly heralded in the press as truth and nothing but the truth dore Dreiser's "descriptive include Burchfield's recent in a characteristically American "the 100 per cent American about Buffalo and places in that journalism." Incensed by the landscape, many of which were manner." recorder of the American nei_ghborhood." country's seemingly obsessive decidedly romantic in mood, in Ms. Maciejunes is curator of scene." He was seen as the Certain critics were willing to search for "The Great American his regular New York gallery American Art at the Columbus young man who "brought claim something even greater Painter," they bemoaned both shows. Burchfield' s landscape, Museum of Art. painting down to earth." "A for the artist. One New York the demise of the Burchfieldian grim gifted independent newspaper observed: "No vein of satire," and the crown American who takes nothing American painter has been able ing of Burchfield and Hopper for granted" and "painted the to capture and dramatize the as "our American white hopes" country that was in his blood, mood of contemporary Ameri by those they considered the Mid-Western environment can civilization with the same national chauvanists. that had matured his concep degree of emotional convic In the spring of 1930 New ME tion of America." In 1934 The tion ...He has taken the obvi York got its first opportunity to New York Times critic, Edward ous and familiar Main Street, see Burchfield's early express Alden Jewell declared, perhaps the desolute urban landscape, ionistic watercolors when the rather facetiously, that Bur and our mongrel architecture Museum of Modern Art chfield "had made himself the as subject for his art and trans mounted a one-man show of all but undisputed maestro of formed it into something epic Burchfield's work from 1916 to that redoubtable institution, the and universal. Those who sum 1918. Alfred Barr, director of freight car." him up as a cynical realist the museum, declared the body Jewell went on to note in all because he chooses to paint of work to be "one of the most seriousness, however, that Bur untraditional aspects of the isolated and original phenome chfield "is realy an artist whose American scene, have missed na in American art. "At least interest in subject goes far his essential quality." Hopper some critics seemed to agree, beneath the surface." Sounding had already voiced a similar astounded "to see what veils of. as impudent as ever, Henry opinion on Burchfield in 1928: mysticism and imagination this McBride joined the chorus of "By sympathy with the particu pitiless realist has looked praise again in 1934: "I like lar he has made it epic and thn;mgh," and fascinated to 1-800-331-7611 lut the 1OOth birthda l bration of Charles Burchfiel and welcome this gala event to Salem, Ohio Columbiana County's Largest Audited Daily Newspaper ~ ------Center ts• museum dedicated to artist Arnold Mesches, Steve Miller, sodic watercolor paintings that held in New York City. Prop Susan Rothenberg, Paul Shar celebrate a visionary, transcen osed participants include World's largest Burchfield its, Cindy Sherman and dental unity with nature. Joseph S. Czestochowski, direc Michael Zwack. Works in the exhibition are tor of the Cedar Rapids drawn from collections around Museum of Art; Patricia D. To celebrate the lOOth Hamm, paper conservator; collection is housed there anniversary of BurchfieJ.d.'s the country. Lenders to the exhibition include the Cleve Donald Kuspit, professor of art By Nancy Weekly which include 72 autograph birth, the Burchfield Art Center at SUNY at Stony Brook; Nan journals, 13 art indexes, note has organized a traveling land Museum of Art, Delaware HE BURCHFIELD ART Art Museum, Hunter Museum nette V. Maciejunes, curator of T Center is both a dedicated books, sketchbooks, and corres exhibition that explores Bur American Art at the Columbus pondence (1,654 letters). The chfield's spirituality. Charles E. of Art, Kennedy Galleries, Met and regional museum, housed rop oli tan Museum of Art, Museum of Art; artists Charles on the campus of Buffalo State archives also contain his studio Burchfield, The Sacred Woods Clough, Bob Gober, April Gor College in Buffalo, New York. equipment, photographs, will open June 10 in the Draw Museum of Modem Art, Char les Rand Penney Collection, nick, Robert Lobe, and two The center possesses the record albums, memorabilia, ing Center in New York City. members of the Burchfield Art world's largest collection of art and extensive documentary The exhibition will travel to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Valparaiso Museum Center staff, researcher Robert and archival materials relating files about his extant work, Minnesota Museum of Art, Slammon and Nancy Weekly. to American watercolorist including the Rehn Archives Saint Paul, Minnesota on Sept. of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Wichita Art This Burchfield symposium Charles E. Burchfield which contain records from 10 through Nov. 7; the Bur is the second in an annual (1893-1967), including paint Burchfield's New York dealer, chfield Art Center, Buffalo, on Museum, among other institu the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries tions and private collectors. series pledged by the center. ings, drawings, doodles, prints, Dec. 11 through Feb.6, 1994; Last year's symposium was wallpapers, and commercial (1918-1981). and the Hunter Museum of The exhibit will be accom The Burchfield Collection is panied by a fully illustrated held in the center at Buffalo designs. Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. on State College. Three oral his The Burchfield collection contextualized by works of his April 3 through May 22, 1994. catalogue published by the State University of New York tory panels were devoted to surveys his career with child contemporaries, including Rehn The exhibition traces the "Remembering Charles Bur hood drawings (1908-1910), colleagues Reginald Marsh and development of symbolic and Press, including an essay by Nancy Weekly, Charles Cary chfield, The Man, The Artist, early watercolors that track his Marsden Hartley, and members stylistic motifs in Burchfield's The Teacher." Among those stylistic development and of the Buffalo Print Club and art beginning in 1915, including Rumsey curator of the Bur ch fie I cl Art Center, who partidf>ating were Burchfield' s emerging symbolism the Art Institute of Buffalo. In his highly inventive "Conven grandchildren, David Richter (1915-1919), commercial compliance with Burchfield's tions for Abstract Thought" selected the works for the exhibition. The exhibition is and Peggy Richter Haug; key designs and wallpapers pro wishes, the Center also repre devised in 1917. It connects center founders, Drs. Paul Bul ducerd at M.H. Birge and Sons sents artists who have lived in Burchfield's artistic origins and made possible with foundation support from the Charles E. ger and Edna M. Lindemann, Company (1921-1929), realistic the Western New York region. evolution to developments in and artists who knew or stud urban and rural scenes The Western New York Collec the 19th century art and litera Burchfield Foundation and cor ied with Burchfield. Formal (1920-early 1940s), and roman tion is comprised of more than ture, including pantheism, porate support from the Buffalo presentations were delivered tic and transcendental land 4,500 works spanning luminism, romanticism, and News. transcendentalism. The exhibi by scholar J. Benjamin Town scapes (mid 1940s-1960s). 1875-1991 by such artists as: On the occasion of the exhib send, collector Charles Rand . T~e ~urchfield ~rchives spe Charles Clough, Nancy Dwyer, tion culminates with Bur ition's premiere, a two-day cialize m manuscnpt materials Hollis Frampton, Robert Longo, chfield's masterful, late rhap- scholarly symposium will be See CENTER, page 14 ~.":)~~~~~~ 'Yest:ert{ears ~~~~~.~" , . ~...l;:.J~ "'"· 9 .C-i~~~~~-- 'Tuestfay,J.prifl3,1993 nJ~~·~ ,. · 'Ihc Ohi9 Cornpaey Junior High artists recreate map cordially invites you to attend a seminar on: Investing For Growth And Income Guest Speaker: Eugene F. Agan, Jr., Director ofMutUal Funds, The Ohio Company Topic: The Cardinal Fund, Inc., Mutual Fund Seminar Tuesday, April 20, 1993 7:00 p.m. Timl)erlanes Restaurant 544 E. Pershing Street Reservatiom may he made by calling: (216) 758~8880 or (800) 676-5853 ,~ ' ·'" 1235 Boardman-Canfield Road ~ Yotingstown, Ohio 44513 m w.... ar:::.r "It....,. ~ §"r""' l( ~.-.,. Member New York Stock Exchange Member SIPC 5- E}F,.;/ o Bs..•- r..:: a~ ~- O'lc:t" \\ I' '· This recreation of Charles Burchfield's map was drawn by six students in Marilou Polshaw's Salem Junior High School art classes: Tim Lucas, Deanne Brown, Devon Cleland, Casey Ward, Jason Rice and Greg Zeigler. Burchfield himself was possibly a student when he drew the map which shows areas he roamed northeast of Fourth Street home. He took pains to mark the location of coal mines and two sites in Pine Hollow; Old Maid's Kitchen, a room-like section of the ravine; and Devil's Den, an overhanging ledge, under which he liked to sit. The map will be used in the "Burchfield's Homecoming'' play. (::·J ------,. -..." :I~/ - -...... _,,~~.) "-~~~ . Center :.s--~, '-~;,.;~Contmuedfrom page 11 :tfJE=l ~·J . r.::7 ·f . 0- Penney, art delaer Lawrence A. art. In collaboration with SUNY newsletter for Burchfield collec Fleischman, and conservator Press, the center published tors to be released later this Patricia D. Hamm. Charles Burchfield's Journals: year. Robert Slammon is editor. As a primary resource center The Poetry of Place in 1992. As Burchfield newsletter articles dedicated to the study of Char ~ditor, J. Benjamin Townsend will report upcoming national les Burchfield, the center spon wrote rich, insightful essays to· events such as exhibitions and sors important scholarly publi introduce each section of jour symposia, excerpts from Char cations about the artist and his nal selections. The 737-page les Burchfield's Journals, auc volume is organized themati tion prices and sales of works, cally with entries progressing a column on financial advice .. for art collectors, and informa ----, chronologically in each section, supplemented by 41 color tion about conservation of plates and 131 black and white works on paper. illustrations. With this book, The Burchfield Art Center's Dr. Townsend has set the pace mission is to collect, exhibit, for future Burchfield preserve, and promote the art ,,:::::::1 scholarship. of Charles Burchfield. The cen Upcoming publications ter strives to provide an educa ~ .... t.:~ :-"Tu.a., ~ tional service in conjunction by the Salem News include a complete, fully illus ;r;. ·~ trated catalogue of the center's with its museum role. For ~;~ Founded June 8, 1991 ~I: Burchfield collection. Bur example, the Education Depart ~~~ 161 N. Lincoln Ave. .;ro ment is culminating a year-long ;;i:; Salem, Ohio 44460 i.\if. chfield's art in all media will be discussed thematically· in collaborative project with Clar '.fr~ Phone (216) 3324601 :i~ essays written by J. Benjamin ence Senior High School focus ~}~ Thomas E. Spargur $'.] Townsend, Nancy Weekly and ing on students' interpretation if:,publisher I general manager ';];· Robert Slammon. Projected top of Burchfield's works through ics include an investigation of various media, including holo recurring symbols and motifs grams, computer graphics, vid as they relate to modernism, eos, photographs, and waterco TERRI l. FITCH synesthesia and the influence of lor paintings. The public is SALEM OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR music, popular culture and its invited to participate in its i c~; I influence on the design of wall programs and to view its THE MOORE- papers, temporality and the exhibitions. Scholars are invited Linda Huffer ~Wi staging of seasonal change, and to use the center's Burchfield PETERSON CO. advertising executive .~~~: the use of memory and dreams Archives. 2307 E. STATE ST., SALEM, OHIO 44460 in fantasy compositions. Ms. Weekly is curator at the TEL: (216) 337~0077 FAX: (216) 337-0068 ... ~~~!:;:~~~~\:~~~=3~i~~ The Burchfield Art Center Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo, also plans the publication of. a New York ... • ~ · Since 1933. we at Ray Lewis and Company have made servine You our number one : : . . . : : PrioritY .. When we do a job. You can count on quality service and workmanshiP. ~ ~ : You see our PeoPle. from sales to service. are trained specialists in their fields .. : : . . . : : Dedicated Professionals You can always count on for fast. friendly and efficient service.. : • we·ve enjoyed workine with the People of Columbiana County for 60 Years of business :• : ~ . : : in these communities.. • ~ : ~ • liF ~. ~======ii?l • • • • • We salute Charles Burchfield for his contributions to both Salem • • and the cultural societ~. We are haPP~ to join in the celebration! Thank You for Your Patronaee. . ~ '"[.!'· ., . , ·-· ·v ~ ~~' ~ ' ~ f"...... • ' • 'luesaay, 5lp n 1993 . ""') - ! ~ ' ' • • - . •• c. ·- . n Ge/ebreition or Rare Burchfield fa111ily photos 01eir[e!:) QurchField'~ 1CJCYh Qirth published here for the first time hie hie/come By Dick Wootten HANKS TO TIM BURC The Qurchrie/d Feimi/y T hfield, nephew of Charles Burchfield and son of the artist's younger brother Fred, early photos of the Burchfield family in Salem are being reproduced here for the first time. FAST SERVICE ... REASONABLE PRICES "As my dad's brothers and 707 E. PARK AVENUE, COLUMBIANA, OHIO sisters passed away, the family PHONE 482-4463 Open Daily 8-5; Sat. 8-12 photographs were passed on to the survivors," explained Tim Burchfield, who now lives in Delaware, Ohio. "My aunt Louise was the last of that gen eration to die. When she passed away in 1982, the photos came to me. I thought the Salem His 1. 24-Hour Long-Term Care torical Society should have 2. 24-Hour Short-Term Recouperation Pictured about 1915 are Charles (left), Frances, Louise and copies of them and the Charles 3. Day Care - Pay $3.50 per hour Fred. Burchfield Centennial is an IRl~!Xlb\~~[lJ'iJ b\ 'il~©INI * Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy appropriate time to see that phy Burchfield, who was a Brian Dry Goods store on * Speech Therapy, Psychological Services they get them." Salem native. They had been Broadway. That same year, *Recreational, Music, Pet Therapies The Burchfield Room of the living in Ashtabula when Louise (1888 -1982) was man ** Loving and Compassionate Employees Salem Historical Society on Alice's husband, William Char ager's clerk at the Central Dis ** Versatile & Caring Volunteers South Broadway across from les Burchfield, died at the age trict Telephone Co. Joe (1890 - "'illlil@ IXl@llilil@® 'illlil®ll b\1!'@ b\Illl IXJ@®ll'll" City Hall will be open Satur of 38. 1952) worked at Atchinson's lb@W®~W, ©®ll'~®U®@I, ~~©®[plllll@ll'il[®~~~~~@llilil®® day, April 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 Alice's two bachelor drug store. Charles was doing p.m. Janice Lesher will serve as brothers, Samuel (1854-1938) errands at the Hawkins Drug guide to visitors. The room has and James (1858-1940), bought Store when he was in the examples of Burchfield prints, the family a five-room house seventh grade and was later to wallpaper, publications and on East Fourth Street. work at the Mullins Company I photos of paintings and paint !i_:~~~~L ~k ~ Alice's oldest son, James "B< "'""d of MERLE B~B'S ' ~H&Mm1s I U rom II f ROMTIERs NORMAN umusim J rue COSMETICS •HAND CAR WASH & UNUMIJED RECONDITIONING L. CALVIN 15% OFF Assorted New 24-Hr. Towing and tore Colognes, Road Service JONES & _Any Spyderco Great for Gift Giving Cars • Trucks • Vans • Campers Knives co. Including Special Bob McCracken, Owner • INSURANCE • BONDS Stop in for a maf(fover Orders Theresa Loshinsky, Manager •LIFE witfi a[{ tfie new spring Ends April 30 coCors. 106 Benton Rd., Salem 565 N. Broad Street 109 E. Ohio Ave. Canfield, Ohio 44406 Sebrine. 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Letters "1.~},1\ sun dow_n h~re at si~ o'clock in last few days so you can see -,"{:'-<·· c ti" d f ,.,,~;:. the evenmg lS four times as hot how busy I have been. I am The day mam'selle -,-.~-·,,; (: on nue rom page 18 +J"~···· as it· is· m· SaI em at noon. We now m· t h e Camou fl age Dep't, ~ r have nothing_ but pine trees where I have been for about a and sand here. Wilfred and week. I don't know yet how I carried the banner artificial hills with disastrous Dale (Leeper) wouldn't know am going to like it as I haven't results! where to start to make a sand had much to do yet. I did help By Lois Firestone their class pennant on her lift-. Army Life Photos pile, there's so much of it. Well, daub up a gun to make it look HE AERONAUTIC up - the jump was a success Letter of Aug. 1, 1918, on there goes our call, Donald. I'll like a raspberry bush in a T show was a major attrac and the elated boys "passed the military stationery which had have to run. Be sure and write storm. I got your letter with the tion at Salem's annual home hat" and bought her a box of photos of army life as letter-· to me. Address your letter very two snap-shots in it. Thanks coming on Oct. 7 and 8, 1910. candy. head: "Dear Donald: We carefully in the order I have it very much. I see Wilfred is Theresa Broadwick was one She wasn't as lucky on· her haven't done anything like the below. Remember me to all already learning how to of the stars and performed second jump and was bµrried picture above yet; when we go your folks - Charlie. 156th ·'salute'. My old company is derring-do as they traveled severely when she landed on to dinner we have to line up in Depot Brigade, camp Jackson, leaving for France tomorrow - from town to town. Billed as telegraph wires. long lines and march into the S.C. Co. H. 2nd Prov. Reg." I wish almost that I were going "Mademoiselle" Broad wick, Years later, Charles w.as mess house and stand at tables Post card dated Aug. 12, along, but if I can go over in her act was to ascend in the air watching the TV show, "To Tell until all are in. Then we sit 1918: "Dear Donald, Monday the camouflage I will be satis sitting on a trapeze, attached to the Truth." Three elderly down and everyone grabs morning. I am going out in a fied. Anything just so I can get a limply hanging parachute. women claimed to be "Tiny" everything: and if you don't get minute to sketch. Isn't that just over and help your Uncle That in turn was fastened to a Broadwick, the first person ·to anything the first time you fine? I saw a big brown beetle Bryan and Joe get to Berlin. I hot air balloon to be released parachute from a plane in 1913. have to sit and suck your last night that had horns like a hear you are raising a pompa by pulling a cord. She would He recognized her immediate thumb. How would you like reindeer. As soon as I get my dour? Look out, it might deve go up to a certain height, pull ly. "I wonder H I woukl have that? For two weeks after we full equipment I will have my lope into a layback! Well the cord and float gracefully to believed that 53 years lciter I come down we are kept in picture taken. Remember me to Donald Jarsky the way the the ground (if she was lucky, would see her on a 'coritrap quarantine. None of us are all the folks. Charlie. Hq. Co. Americans are going thru it since there wasn't much leeway tion' known as TV, " he wrote, allowed to leave the company 15th B FA R D Ca J ck looks as tho I might soon be at with the buildings, houses and "still looking very petite nCar.· : · ., mp a - home once more. Then we'll street. The company street is son, S. o1 ma." h telegraph wires below. and ... very much a doll (inci about a hundred feet long so Postcard dated August 23, ave a picnic in the woods Bill Kirst and Charles Bur dentally, the 4 panelists a1i you can see how many square 1918: "Dear Donald: How are won't we? It's pretty near time chfield, high school chums, chose her as the real miles we can wander around you? I got your letter and will for mess so I'll say goodbye. talked Theresa into carrying astronaut)." · in. We just received our uni look for another one. Say Don Write soon again - Charlie - forms the other day. Most of Jarsh, I lost the picture you sent If you hang the picture in your them were misfits. My coat fits of you and me. Could you send room you'll have bad dreams." me about like an overcoat for me another one? I want one Postcard written Nov. 7, an elephant would do as a vest very much. I am studying 1918: "Dear Donald: Your letter for a flea. I could put both legs mostly now and listening to a little late as it was sent to the in one of my leggings, and both lectures. I hope we go across wrong address. I am glad feet in one of my hike-shoes. soon - give my love to all the Helen won the prize. I hope Don't you think I would look folks - Charlie." you can soon start to school pretty in such an outfit. These On YMCA Stationary again. Give my love to all. suits are just for the time being. Letter written on YMCA sta- Charlie." When we are put in a regular tionery and dated Sep. 14, 1918: This story appeared in Barbara company we will have suits to "Dear Donald: I have been Zeigler's "Looking Back" column fit us. Until then I can't have a intending to send you my pie- in the Thursday, May 12, 1983 picture taken but when I do I'll ture for some time but have issue of the Salem News. "Weaver's Chimney" II' .,.. 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Birge and Sons Wall Of Your Home Paper in Buffalo. In 1925 he moved from Buffalo to Gardenville, where he lived the rest of his @Full Deli life. He left the job in 1929, the year of the stock market era.sh, to live solely from his artwork. Nurses Aides 0 Sub-Sandwiches Companions Housekeepers •Beverages ,~~~~£., Comments Cathy Hofmeister, Director •Snacks 1680 S. Lincoln Ave. ·,~~~~yon Charles Salem, Ohio 332-2722 ing.he would use it to continue Burchfield. 337-6863 studying Latin, he applied it towards art school. From Edward Hopper: "Bur Fred's son Tim won a $400 chfield has exacted a quality alumni scholarship in 1960 and that we may call poetic, roman Tim's daughter Joan won a tic, lyric or what you will. By $4,000 scholarship in 1987. sympathy with the particular, he has made it epic and universal." From John Baur, Whitney Museum of Art: "Nature acted upon Burchfield like a catalyst, stimulating his imagination, 838 S. Lundy Ave. 332-1591 memory and emotion, and -releasing a vein of fantasy quite unique in our art. No realist Salem Label Co., Inc. is the painter of the century got as near to nature or found in it so originator of Aerowrap® and profound a source of Aerowrap II® innovative film inspiration." Photo of Charles in his 20s, This photo of Charles may From Catherine Burchfield possibly taken in Salem in have been taken at the Cleve Parker, daughter of Charles labeling systems to replace front of the family's grape land School of Art between Burchfield: "My father's paint arbor. 1912 and 1916. ings were called Expressionistic lithographed containers. Fantasy, Romantic Realism and Symbolist Art. He never felt the need to travel to paint. He nev er went to Europe. In fact, he Salem Label salutes another had to stay in a spot for a long time to get the feel of the place Salem original before he could paint it. He kept his boyhood memories of Salem alive, and Salem themes kept showing up in his art right up to the end. Nothing he Charles saw was bland to him. Every thing evoked strong emotions. SEKELV He saw an old house and gave it a face and a mood. It was as if everywhere he looked he just Burchfield Industries, Inc. said, 'Wow!' " From Paul Travis, classmate, and welcomes his family to the 250 Pennsylvania Ave., Salem, Ohio 44460 teacher at Cleveland Institute of Art: "Burchfield was undoub-' city on this special occasion. tedly the greatest artist Ameri 337-3439 ca has ever produced." :Yest:en.Jears ~~~~~.~ o~~~ 1uesiay, ~rif 13, 1993 ~Y)~·~ --~~~~~~~~~~-- Cha r le s Burchfield speaks to fellow graduates FRIENDS PACK M.E. CHURCH artist !urn a ccrlaitJ iwlividualily which beauty for ihe sake or theii" reli~ion. In than all prece ~»~~~::>~~~~ ---~____:..---.!.~~~~~ Fourth was typical of 1900s neighborhoods By Lois Firestone ter store downtown and Burton ALEM IN THE 1900s Reynolds was an engineer at S was an ideal place to the water works. grow up - its hard working Alice Burchfield, a young inhabitants passed on a strong widow, had moved her scant work ethic to their children, belongings and large family of along with an ability to enjoy a six youngsters to the six-room full life with simple diversions. frame house at 214 East Fourth With a population of only in 1898. James was 16, Frances 5,000, most everyone in town 12, Louise 10, Joseph 8, and knew everyone else - or at Fred was 2. Young Charles least knew who people were Ephraim, her fifth born and the talking about when someone's one destined for fame as an name was mentioned. Every artist, was 4Yi . The house was Saturday night, people came owned by her brothers, Samuel downtown to "see the sights," and James Murphy, and she wander through the dry goods lived gratis there, but James' store or buy an ice at the drug job as a coremaker's assistant at store - and stop at the corner Deming's supported them all. of Main and Broadway to By 1917 the Burchfield clan, watch the medicine man sell now grown, still lived at home Margaret 'Pommy' Weaver stands in the showpiece garden behind her Fourth Street home. Her his Kickapoo Indian snake oil, with the exception of 27-year cottage was the subject of numerous Burchfield drawings. a cure-all for a myriad old Joseph who had enlisted in ailments. the Army. Frances was a clerk After school and during the at Brian Dry Goods along sultry summer months, the Broadway; James continued his town's youngsters roamed free daily shift as a coremaker at ly and spent a lot of time hang Deming's; Fred was a student; ing upside down from the and Louise was a manager's hitching post pipes that ran clerk with the Central District along Main Street, waiting for Telephone Co. the fire bell to dang or the arri Twenty-four-year-old Char val of the Stark Electric car. les was working in the cost Henry Ford's marvelous department at Mullins - he'd invention was giving people graduated from the Cleveland the chance to explore outside art school the year before and their cities. But few could would continue to work at the afford one of the prized Model local plant until 1921, excepting Ts so people walked to where for a one-year stint in the Army Elmer and Herb Bush pose in they had to go - their every from 1918 to 1919. day lives were focused mostly their Sunday best in front of Although he rarely talked their Fourth Street home. on the families who lived about his art, he was seldom nearby. without a drawing pad and tion of the Weaver house If Salem's downtown was pencil. He sketched during his depicted in "The Peace of typical of 1900s small towns, lunch hours, before and after Christmas," in his journal entry then East Fourth Street, a mod work and on weekends, and of Dec. 22, 1960: "It is nightfall, est section northeast of town, often the subject of his draw the last glow for the setting sun personified the era's ings was the house across the behind the snowbound cottage neighborhoods. alley, viewed from an upstairs - a slender new moon floats in Most women stayed at home window. the southwest sky - Mrs. to keep house unless they were Then and in time to come - Weaver is sitting in her accus widows or "maiden ladies." tomed chair by the window lit and the tiny cottage with the up by an unseen lamp, or open The Bush family relaxes in the shade (from left) Elmer 'Dutch,' East Fourth Street had five such too-large "smokestack" chim women making it on their own ney captivated his imagination fire - in it I tried to express Minnie and Herb. in 1917. Laura Brown decorated for 30 years - he called it the the humble dignity of such a stoneware at the Salem China, Weaver house. It wasn't just modest home... to me it symbol Cathrinne Diville toiled at the the cottage, though, that held izes the very best in human Kirkbride Laundry, Mary Jane him; it was the people living existence, all this in a setting of Martin packed novelties at the there. the fairyland of frost and snow George Bowman Co., Minnie Minnie Bush was a young of a very cold night." Bush manned the switchboard mother abandoned by her hus The home of another neigh at the Ohio State Telephone band struggling to survive with bor became famous. Ida and Co., and Ida Carlisle worked at her two sons, Elmer and Herb William Carlisle lived across the. Bell Telephone Co. office. in a shanty along Egypt Road. the street from the Burchfields The men worked long hours Her sister, Ellie lived at 208 E. at 207 E. Fourth. The friendship in local industries making steel Fourth St. with her husband, continued after William died boats, pumps, and engines, or Vernon. To help Minnie, Ver and Ida went to work at the at one or another of the dozens non built a cottage in front of Bell Telephone Co. The Carlisle of local businesses. F. C. Dun their home for Minnie and her house, too, was a frequent can was a foreman at the two boys in 1913 - Herb was 4 subject. Deming Co. · and Benjamin and Elmer "Dutch" was 8 years Long after the other homes Edwards, Benjamin Engel, Wil old. After her husband Joseph on East Fourth were darkened liam Sheen and Vernon Lodge died three years later, the girls' for the night, the light in Char- ' were madlinists there. mother, Margaret "Pammy" les' small second-floor bedroom Jacob Moss, Ben Harris, J. G. Weaver joined them. glowed on into the early morn Smith and Robert Leipper The house was heated by a ing hours. For him, there was worked at the W. H. Mullins coal stove in the living-dining never enough time to put on Co.; James Bingham at the Nail room and Vernon built a coal paper his impressions of the Mill; Harry Wisner at the Pitts house at the back of the cottage scenes around him, including The Peace of Christmas burgh Foundry; and Ralph using a plywood riano box. his neighbors and their homes. Ridge at Porter Lumber. The improvised coa house has It was in this simple environ upbringing which in subse home is dismal or worthy of A. C. Sheen drove for the been immortalized in several of ment that he created master quent years he never denied: "I our pity, but that therein life is Wells Fargo Express, Eugene Charles' drawings. piece after masterpiece. All have tried to show," he said, dignified and deserving of our Leipper clerked at the Hemme- He talks about his interpreta- were based on his own humble "not that the most modest highest respect." Youngsters from Fourth Street School gather on the steps in this 1900s photo. Young Elmer Bush is standing with his arm on the pillar at far left in back row. One-man play will star local actor John Dunlap "Burchfield' s Homecoming," include the opening of a Char the theater at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. a one-man play featuring veter les Burchfield art exhibit and a both Saturday, April 17 and an community theater actor laser light show. The museum Sunday, April 18. Tickets are John Dunlap, will have its pre doors will open at 7 p.m., a $5. Call 332-9688. miere at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April reception is set for 9 p.m. and 16 at the Salem Community the laser show is at 10 p.m. For The hour-long play, written Charles Burchfield drew this sketch of young Elmer Bush who Theater as part of the Bur tickets call 332-8213 or by Dick Wootten and directed lived with his mother, grandmother and brother in the Weaver chfield Centennial Gala. 743-1107. Tickets are $30 per by Jeanne Elser, is based on the house next door to the artist. Over the years the pencil draw The Gala, a fund-raiser for person. question: What would Bur ing has deteriorated. Elmer's daughter, Treva Miller of Salem the Salem Branch of the Butler chfield have to say about Salem is eager to know if the drawing can be salvaged in some way. Institute of Art, will also The play will be repeated at if he were to return? s • Worker's Compensation s • Social Security Disability .. Alliance 821-7720 ual'te:rs USA .. Lisbon 424-7004 /J~2~ FURNITURE Brian Tarian e~ We ha ' a aaii.y dinner special v;~,P~ Salem, Ohio and a deck overlooking scenic Co., L.P.A. and,$~ Guilford Lake. Attorney At Law Monday-Friday FRIDAY NIGHT Little Joe Playing '50s 22109 St. Rt. 62 8458 J'rfarket St. 10-8 & '60s Music Alliance, Ohio ]oungstown, Ohio Saturday 10-6 Closed Sunday E. 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