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LITERATURE J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 238, no. 1067. FURTHER DETAILS We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot. Conditions of sale Brought to you by Quincie Dixon Associate Specialist, Head of Sale Check the condition report or get in touch for additional information about this QDIXON@CHRISTIES.COM +1 212 636 2141 VIEW CONDITION REPORT LOT ESSAY According to Burchfield Scholar Nancy Weekly, "On occasion, Burchfield created a smaller version of a painting, especially if he and/or his wife Bertha were fond of the large version and reluctant or ambivalent about releasing it for sale. Since Bertha owned Hemlock and Trilliums, it’s clear that Charles wanted her to have a personal 'memento' of the original she admired. In many ways, her version is livelier in expressing their shared joy with the onset of spring, which they often observed by going to woods to see trilliums." (unpublished letter, 2026) The present work relates to the artist's 1948 watercolor entitled Red Trilliums and Hemlock (private collection).