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signed with the artist's monogrammed initials CEB, dated 1917 and inscribed To Dr. & Mrs. Ritchie, l.r.; also titled Window by the Alley and dated Sept. 5, 1917 on the reverse prior to mounting

watercolor on paper

PROVENANCE

Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Ritchie, New York and New Haven, Connecticut
Sale: Christie's, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 328, illustrated in color
EXHIBITED

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland School of Art, Charles Burchfield, 1917, illustrated
New York, Montross Gallery, Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Charles Burchfield, March-April 1928, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Charles Burchfield Early Watercolors 1916-1918, April 1930, no. 20, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield, 1956-57, no. 6, illustrated
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, The Nature of Charles Burchfield: A Memorial Exhibition, April-May 1970, no. 98
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 358, p. 66
CATALOGUE NOTE

An inscription on the reverse prior to mounting reads: "The cottage was next door to my home in Salem, Ohio. The lady in the window is 'Grandma Weaver'--It was a favorite spot of hers, to sit. The vine of the window is the wild cucumber, highly conventionalized."