Emerson Burkhart Oil Painting "El Sierra Mountain," 1965
Item Details
Emerson Burkhart (Columbus, Ohio, 1905 – 1969)
El Sierra Mountain, Montavilla, [sic] Mexico, 1965
Oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated to the lower left
Title and date inscribed to the verso
Born on a farm near Kalida, Emerson Burkhart studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and then moved to New York City to study at the Art Student’s League. He later moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and took instruction from painter Charles Hawthorne (1872 – 1930). Later he moved to Columbus, Ohio, and was one of the first members of the Ohio Art League. Burkhart’s career included receiving two commissions from the WPA Federal Art Project to create murals at Central High School and at The Ohio State University, exhibiting, teaching, and traveling as an artist-in-residence with the International School of America. Known as an American Scene painter, over his career he used impressionist, post-impressionist, and realist styles in his work. He was known to create work showing disdain for excess and the progression as a disposable society, but also known for his portraits, city scenes of Columbus, and harbor seascapes.
Condition
- examined under UV light; artwork is slightly loose within frame; accretions, flecks of discoloration, and craquelure scattered to paint; gaps between the corners of frame bars; adhesive residue and discoloration to the lower right region of frame; crack and small chips to wood of the lower bar of frame; abrasions, scratches, scuffs, discoloration, and accretions to frame throughout.
Dimensions
- measurements of frame; sight measures 39.75" W x 19.25" H.
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Item #
ITMR043379
