The Cleveland Museum of Art refused this artist's offer to restore a purple swirl that had faded to blue in the central element of one work.
The Cleveland Museum of Art refused this artist's offer to restore a purple swirl that had faded to blue in the central element of one work. This subject of the first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art moved to Buffalo to design wallpaper, leading to a middle realist period featuring industrial sites like Black Iron.  A pair of black and yellow eyes peer out over the house of his childhood neighbors, the Weavers, in a work by this artist of Salem Bedroom Studio.  He explored themes like imbecility in his Conventions for Abstract Thoughts, and black rain pours down on a house in his 1918 painting, The East Wind.  Also known for The Insect Chorus and Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, FTP, name this friend of Edward Hopper, who specialized in hallucinatory watercolor paintings. 
The Cleveland Museum of Art refused this artist's offer to restore a purple swirl that had faded to blue in the central element of one work.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield