Charles E. Burchfield

Charles Burchfield grew up in Salem, Ohio, and attended the Cleveland School of Art from 1912 to 1916. His most important early work was produced in and around Salem, where he developed his distinctive style during the summer of 1915. In 1936, Life magazine named him one of America’s ten greatest painters. He was known for passionate watercolors of nature scenes and small-town Ohio landscapes that combined realist observation with expressive, almost hallucinatory intensity.