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Cicada and Telegraph Pole, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Burchfield, Charles 1893-1967  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor and pastel on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Buffalo State College Burchfield-Penney Art Center Buffalo New York Accession Number: 1994:001.131
Date:
1923-1964
Notes:
Weekly, Nancy, ed., "Life Cycles: The Charles E. Burchfield Collection," Buffalo, NY: Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1996, pg. 83.
Summary:
View looking over the rooftops of houses, with puffy white clouds in the sky overhead, and in the foreground a tall telegraph pole with a cicada clinging to the side.
Topic:
Architecture exterior--Science--Power Lines  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--House  Search this
Animal--Insect--Cicada  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68090113
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_387039