Charles Burchfield: A master of American Modernist watercolor
- October 11, 2009 15:21
LOS ANGELES - An exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum includes works from Charles Burchfield's beginnings as a wallpaper designer, his solo exhibition at the just-opened Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and more. Arguably, watercolor was the most important medium sustained by American painters struggling with the new demands and untried possibilities of Modernism in the first half of the 20th century.